Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook (BWB Texts) by Alice Te Punga Somerville
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
"Alice Te Punga Somerville employs her deep research and dark humour to skilfully channel her response to Cook's global colonial legacy"--Back cover.
Between The Flags by Rachel Fenton
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
What if the worst thing that could ever happen to you had already happened, but you didn't realise? Like your brain couldn't handle it, so you turned it into a comic. Then closed it. Fourteen-year-old trainee lifeguard Mandy Malham has wanted to beat Jen in the surf lifesaving championships at Soldier ...Show more
Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Shanghai, Aotearoa, Malaysia, London-all are places poet Nina Powles calls home and not-home; from each she can be homesick for another. A gorgeous bittersweet longing and hunger runs through the poems in this new collection from one of our most exciting poetic voices. In Magnolia Powles explores her ex ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forti ...Show more
Black Marks on the White Page by Witi Ihimaera; Tina Makereti
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A stunning collection of Oceanic stories for the 21st century. Stones move, whale bones rise out of the ground like cities, a man figures out how to raise seven daughters alone. Sometimes gods speak or we find ourselves in a not-too-distant future. Here are the glorious, painful, sharp and funny 21st ce ...Show more
White Lies by Witi Ihimaera; Dana Rotberg
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A powerful, prize-winning novella from the much-loved author of The Whale Rider, plus a moving screenplay, film stills and commentary on writing and movie making. A medicine woman a giver of life is asked to hide a secret that may protect a position in society, but could have fatal consequences. When sh ...Show more
Falling Into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
It seems like an ordinary day when Tui and Kae, fourteen-year-old twins, get home from school - until they find their mother, Maia, has disappeared and a swirling vortex has opened up in her room. They are sucked into this portal and dragged down to Rarohenga, the Maori Underworld, a shadowy place of in ...Show more
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more
Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria by Muhammad Najem, Nora Neus
28.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books
A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Muhammad Najem and CNN producer Nora Neus. "A story of journalism at its most inspiring, its most heartbreaking, its most essential. Muhammad is a reporter who brings hope to a damaged world." --John Berman, ...Show more
National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
National Anthem is a new poetry collection from award-winning journalist and writer Mohamed Hassan. It charts an intimate course through memories from his childhood and upbringing in Egypt, New Zealand, Turkey and elsewhere to untangle the intersecting traumas of migration, Islamophobia and grief and as ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more
Covenant Keeper, The: Telesa Book 1 by Lani Wendt Young
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Telesa 1
She is a girl torn between two worlds … Teenager Leila Folger escapes the stifling misery of life with her American grandmother and goes to Samoa searching to connect with her mother’s family. All her efforts to learn more about the mother shenever knew are met with hostility. What really happened eight ...Show more