Bloody Woman - Essays by Lana Lopesi
$39.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women's experiences and the Pacific. These essays lead into the messy and the sticky, the whi ...Show more
In Memoriam Book - Black Cover by na
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Includes: • Name & address • Bereavement notices • Details of service • Personal memories • Photographs
ASA's Guide to Getting Published: Understanding and navigating Australia's book industry by JULIET ROGERS
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
Writing a book is hard work. Knowing what to do next can be even harder. There are so many questions to be asked and answered. How does the publishing industry really work? How do you go about submitting a manuscript so that it gets further than the dreaded slush pile? Do you need the help of an agent a ...Show more
Complete Poems by James K. Baxter (edited by John Weir)
$199.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
James K. Baxter, one of New Zealand's greatest poets, began writing poetry when he was a seven-year-old pupil at Brighton Primary School. By the time his first book, Beyond the Palisades, was published when he was eighteen, he had written more than 600 poems. His life's work, contained in this four-volu ...Show more
People Person by Joanna Cho
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on the NBA highlights. You relaxed immediately. This is intimacy. People Person is a debut collection by Joanna Cho. These adventurous, funny and dissonant poems are about the endless work of fitting in wh ...Show more
Landfall 244 - Spring 2022 by Lynley Edmeades (editor)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealands foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. The 2022 Spring edition, Landfall 24 ...Show more
Inequality - A New Zealand Crisis by Max Rashbrooke (editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A staggering rise in wealth disparity has transformed New Zealand from one of the developed world’s most equal nations to one of the most unequal. Inequality is one of the most powerful forces shaping New Zealand: it harms the lives of thousands and, the evidence suggests, makes us all worse off. Intern ...Show more
Letter to 'Oumuamua by James Norcliffe
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this wry and witty collection -- addressed to the first interstellar object ever to be detected in our solar system -- James Norcliffe applies a cool, clear eye to human life on Earth. Our foibles and absurdities are laid bare, but so too is the human capacity for love, desire, sorrow and regret. Nor ...Show more
Tu Rangaranga - Rights, Responsibilities and Global Citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sharon McLennan (Editor); Margaret Forster (Editor); Carol Neill (Editor); David Littlewood (Editor); Rand Hazou (Editor)
$69.95 AUD
Category: General
The biggest challenges of the 21st century require global solutions. Focusing on three of the most urgent problems of our time - climate change, conflict and poverty, and inequality - Tu Rangaranga introduces the notion of global citizenship, and what it means to be an active citizen in today's world. I ...Show more
Respirator - A Poet Laureate Collection 2019-2022 by David Eggleton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Respirator is a sumptuous celebration of David Eggleton's tenure as the Aotearoa NZ Poet Laureate (2019-22). In this collection, Eggleton explores how the social changes and upheavals of the past four extraordinary years manifested in Aotearoa NZ, from the impact of living through a pandemic to ecologic ...Show more
Waha/Mouth by Hinemoana Baker
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
I’d like to think that opening this book to read is like standing at the mouth of a cave, or a river, or a grave, with a candle in your hand. –Hinemoana Baker
Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page and Game by Robert McKee; Bassim El-Wakil
$59.95 AUD
Category: General