All Tito's Children by Tim Grgec
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Who is Marshal Tito? His accent is strange, his birthdate and name uncertain. He addresses his people in a voice that might be his own, or perhaps it is the voice of someone else. Stjepan and Elizabeta are siblings in Kotoriba, a small village between two rivers in Yugoslavia. They want to know everythi ...Show more
My Body My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in An Era of Change by Caren Wilton
$49.95 AUD
Category: General
In My Body, My Business, 11 former and current New Zealand sex workers speak frankly, in their own voices, about their lives in and out of the sex industry. Their stories are by turns eye-opening, poignant, heartening, disturbing and compelling. Based on a series of oral history interviews by Caren Wilt ...Show more
The Wrong Turning - Encounters with Ghosts - Ghost Stories From World Literature by Stephen Johnson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
Introduced and edited by broadcaster Stephen Johnson, a curated selection of chilling ghost stories from world literature. Why do people love ghost stories, even if they don't believe (or say they don't believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being mesmerized and terrified b ...Show more
Wildlife of New Zealand by Julian Fitter
$49.95 AUD
Category: General
The essential field guide to the wildlife of New Zealand. New Zealand is home to an amazing and distinctive flora and fauna, most of it found only in this country. This fully revised field guide covers most of the birds, mammals and reptiles that you are likely to see, as well as a good selection of inv ...Show more
Palmer's Citrus Handbook by Eion Scarrow
$19.95 AUD
Category: General
The only citrus gardening guide written specifically for New Zealand. Revised and updated it includes information on: Climate Soil Nutrition Propagation Citrus varieties Selecting and planting Pruning Growing in containers Disease and pest control Harvesting Spray safety Monthly planting calendar. First ...Show more
Lifetime in Galapagos, A by Tui De Roy
$69.95 AUD
Category: General
Tui De Roy was a year old in 1955 when her family left Europe aboard a banana boat, bound for the Pacific to lead a different sort of life on Galapagos, one of self-sufficiency and living close to nature. She grew up on the islands and returned to them often over the next five decades. Discovering photo ...Show more
Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing by Jon Day
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the ...Show more
Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in the twenty-first century as it is frequently overloo ...Show more
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn Owen Hatherley
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several things happening at once - assessments of historic tow ...Show more
My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: General Adult
A new work by a highly acclaimed author - The Big Music(2012) was described as 'One of the finest novels of the past decade' by the TLS The essay will appeal to all fans of Katherine Mansfield A profound meditation on the nature of home and artistic influence When Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowsh ...Show more
Happy Half Hours by A.A. Milne
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven't been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce, this volume brings Milne's brilliant non-fiction back to the spotlight. A. A. Milne was a successful writer lon ...Show more
Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg by Roger Scruton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literature
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew u ...Show more