Heart of the City The Story of Christchurch's Controversial Cathedral by Edmund Bohan
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
From the days even before Christchurch was settled its cathedral has been the focus of ferocious public debate: Where should a cathedral be built? How would it be paid for? Should it be built in wood or stone in an earthquake-prone country? Who should oversee the building? It took far too long to build ...Show more
Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more
Worse Things Happen at Sea by John McCrystal
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
MISHAP 1968 – Caught in a sudden violent storm, the Wahine ferry foundered after running aground on Barrett’s Reef, attempting to enter Wellington Harbour. Battered mercilessly by the elements, the Wahine was listing heavily to starboard when the order to abandon ship was given. The tragic events that f ...Show more
Kiwi Garages by George Lockyer
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Ever wondered what Kiwis get up to in their garages? Kiwi Garages celebrates the can-do culture, lifting the doors of over 30 self-styled Kiwi garages from tinkerers and collectors to top-of-the-range techno dreamers. A modern take on Blokes in Sheds 30-plus Kiwi garages profiled from across provincial ...Show more
The Birds Began to Sing - A Memoir of a New Zealand Composer by Dorothy Buchanan
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Dorothy Buchanan is a prolific, much loved and much awarded composer, who pioneered the composer-in-schools scheme and has been a force in music and music-making in Aotearoa for over half a century. Born in 1945 on the West Coast, she grew up as one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Do ...Show more
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more
Come Back to Mona Vale - Life and death in a Christchurch Mansion by Alexander McKinnon
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Come Back to Mona Vale is a beautifully written, compelling narrative/memoir that sets about unravelling the mysteries and anomalies behind the public history of a wealthy Christchurch business family in the first half of the 20th century. The author-as narrator gradually becomes aware that his family h ...Show more
A Bunk for the Night - A Guide to New Zealand's Best Backcountry Huts (Revised edition) by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown; Geoff Spearpoint
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand has a huge range of backcountry huts, most of which are available for public use. Some can sleep 80 people, while others are tiny two-bunk affairs with not even room to stand up in. They are located in our mountains, on the edges of our fiords, coastlines and lakes, beside rivers, in the bus ...Show more
Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings by Nicola McCloy; Jane King
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
You can't help but wonder about the stories behind the unusual buildings you see around New Zealand - from cute colonial cottages to abandoned industrial buildings or ghost towns. Nicola McCloy went looking to find out ... who lived there? From basic stone cottages in barren-looking countryside to prett ...Show more
The Spirit of Cardrona: Where Dreams are Hatched by Desiree Reid-Whitaker
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The inspirational story of the Cardrona Distillery 'Ever since I was really little, I have dreamed big dreams. It's nice to imagine what could be, and leave it at that. But I've never been that sort of dreamer. I've always wanted to take one of my dreams, find just the right one-and turn it into someth ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
Brutal - The 100 Year Fight for World Rugby Supremacy by Ron Palenski
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
This year marks a hundred years of the greatest rivalry the rugby world has known, New Zealand against South Africa. These titans first met on a test field in 1921 and, coincidentally, in the hundredth year of their battle for supremacy, they will also play their 100th test. The intense, unmatched rival ...Show more