Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
$26.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of Longitude'Fascinating and satisfying' Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the World. For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remote ...Show more
Finding True Connections - How to Learn and Write about a Family Member's History by Gareth St John Thomas
$44.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Our individual memories define us. Our tribal memories unite us. If these are missing, parts of us are missing too. The Emotional Inheritance division of Exisle Publishing works with a global team of psychologists, writers and historians to provide a premium interview and story production service, to ca ...Show more
Three Kiwi Tales: More fabulous fix-it stories from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt
$18.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North is a very special hospital for very special animals, and in this follow-up to the hugely successful How to Mend a Kea, author Janet Hunt focuses on the tales of three kiwi who have been treated there. The stories are fascinating and touching accounts of their differ ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$9.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.'In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, ...Show more
Towards the Mountain: A Story of Grief and Hope Forty Years on from Erebus by Sarah Myles
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Erebus disaster, this is the first book on that tragedy written by one of the affected families.
Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the UK's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense o ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Future by John Guy
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, ...Show more
Somewhere by Lorna Jane Harvey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
More people are likely migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethniciti ...Show more
Life as a Casketeer - What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living by Francis Tipene; Kaiora Tipene; Paul Little
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life As A Casketeer reveals how Francis a ...Show more
The Boat That Brought Me by Nick Bridge
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The only New Zealander to have been attacked by a library, former diplomat Nick Bridge writes of his liberation from English class constraints and an education at a Hampshire prep school to the opportunities of 1950s New Zealand and a co-ed state school in Hutt Valley, which took him eventually to seven ...Show more
Relentless - How a Mother and Daughter Defied the Odds by Lisa Tamati
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
When extreme endurance athlete, Lisa Tamati, was confronted with the hardest challenge of her life, she fought with everything she had. Her beloved mother, Isobel, had suffered a brain aneurysm and a stroke, resulting in massive brain damage; she was like a baby in a woman's body. Relentless tells a sto ...Show more
Living On Shaky Ground - The science and story behind New Zealand’s earthquakes by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What makes our isles so shaky? Why was Christchurch not the first of our big quakes? Any why won’t it be our last? This book investigates our turbulent tectonics. It tells us how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists predict future shakes. It details New Zealand’s lesser-known quake ...Show more