More Than Just a Place of Work - A History of Dunedin's Hillside Railway Workshops by Ian Dougherty
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A history of Dunedin's Hillside Railway Workshops. This well-researched book covers both the engineering history to interest railway enthusiasts, and a political, economic and social history that will appeal to a wider readership. Beginning in the 1860s until its closure in 2012, the Dunedin Hillside Ra ...Show more
Late Love (BWB Texts) by Glenn Colquhoun
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'Most of the time I have no idea what to do with them or what to say in response to them.' Award-winning New Zealand poet Glenn Colquhoun is also a doctor who works with struggling young people at the margins, painfully aware of the limits of his role. In this BWB Text he offers penetrating insight int ...Show more
To the Memory: New Zealand's War Memorials by Jock Phillips
29.99 NZD
59.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Over 30,000 New Zealanders have died in wars since 1840. They have been remembered in the more than a thousand memorials put up in public places throughout New Zealand. Except on Anzac Day, most people pass by these monuments without really looking at them. Yet a huge amount of social energy and resourc ...Show more
Country Calendar: Stories From our Rural Heartland by Matt Philp & Rob Suisted
49.99 NZD
59.99 (16% off)
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
This year saw Country Calendar turn 50, and this book celebrates the milestone by revisiting 15 families who have appeared on the show during the last decade or so – and, in some cases, whose properties have featured more than once during the 50 years.
No Place to Hide by James R. Flynn (University of Otago, New Zealand)
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Millions of educated people all over the world feel powerless in the face of climate change and its consequences, partially because the literature on the environment is so vast it is difficult to know where to begin. This short book is intended to make their search for truth manageable It allows the rea ...Show more
Kereru Station - Two Sisters' Legacy by Mary Shanahan
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
When two well-heeled sisters purchased the sprawling Kereru Station, old school farmers must have shook their heads in bemused dismay. The property was in serious decline. Fences had collapsed, paddocks were reverting to rabbit-infested scrub and the once handsome homestead was being used to store hay a ...Show more
Show Me the Money, Honey by Ian Wishart
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
Salt. Sugar. Fats.We spend trillions on health globally, but what haven't you been told? Just how bad are our diets, and just how good are the natural products we reach for? A compelling investigation into 'bad' foods and natural supplements. Discover what the science really says NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS: DO ...Show more
The Snow Farmer: John Lee of the Cardrona Valley by Sally Rae
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
One man's dream to breathe life into a sleepy Central Otago valley has brought high-adrenaline adventure to millions in a spectacularly beautiful part of New Zealand. Heavily illustrated with historic and scenic images, this book tells the story of John Lee - high-country farmer, family man and develope ...Show more
My Father's Island - A Memoir by Adam Dudding
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
After the death of his brilliant, eccentric father, Adam Dudding went in search of the stories and secrets of a man who had been a loving parent and husband, but was also a tormented, controlling and at times cruel man. Robin Dudding was the greatest New Zealand literary editor of his generation - frien ...Show more
Behind the Tape:Life On The Police Front Line by Lance Burdett
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
New Zealand's top police crisis negotiator reveals the everyday drama of being a cop: the lives saved, the lives lost and the extreme pressure to perform under tough and confronting circumstances.
Thorndon, Wellington and Home - My Katherine Mansfield Project (BWB Texts) by Kirsty Gunn
14.99 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opportunity to walk the very streets and hills that Katherine Mansfield left behind on her departure from New Zealand, but later longed to revisit. In this exq ...Show more
Buyer Beware: A New Zealand Home Buyer's Guide by Maria Slade
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ General Non Fiction
How to negotiate the minefield of buying a home in New Zealand today. Property prices going through the stratosphere, leaky buildings, P contamination, bullying body corporates - purchasing a house today can feel akin to entering a minefield. Written by a news journalist who has covered many of the horr ...Show more