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Mark Beehre combines documentary photography and oral history to recount the lives of 45 gay men and how their lives’ journeys have, for the moment, led them towards or away from relationship…

Selected ‘wrertings’, meditations, outbursts, decrees and diversions from the founder of Driving Creek Railway.

John McLeod – $39.99 Price range through $39.99John McLeod’s account of his time as a peacekeeper in Angola … is the most revealing account yet written about what can happen when we send New Zealand service personnel on peace enforcement operations and it all goes tragically wrong.— Glyn Harper, Professor of War Studies at Massey University

David Cohen This is a story of two Cohens, the famous singer and his not-so-famous lifelong New Zealand fan. It spans several generations and locations, from the refugee waves of Europe of the 19th century to suburban New Zealand in the 1970s, late-night Montréal and New York and the menacing frontiers of the Middle East.

James McNeish Werner Seelenbinder’s mission is an unknown story; the defiance and courage of the only Olympian in the resistance, subsequently concealed by the Americans in the Cold War and blotted out in modern postwar Germany.

Complete with Koch’s own memoirs, this book illuminates the exploration and documentation of early New Zealand.

Gerry Barton & Philip Heath The Coral Route was the first scheduled air service through the islands of the South Seas. Inaugurated by Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) in 1951 using four-engined Solent flying boats, it flew into the jet age, becoming the world’s last long-haul flying boat route. Si...

Lloyd Geering At nearly 99 years old, Sir Lloyd Geering is well qualified to look back over the last century, consider the massive social changes he has lived through, and evaluate human progress.

Tony Vercoe, talking with Tony Martin These interviews trace Kiwi Pacific Records from its beginnings as a division of publishers AH & AW Reed Ltd to its independence as Kiwi Pacific Records, all under the direction of Tony Vercoe.

Frances Cherry Like the excerpts included from Frances’s teenage diaries and later published writing, this memoir is a series of candid, colourful and entertaining snippets and snapshots from a Wellington writer’s life.

Reflections on a career in New Zealand’s foreign affairs, tourism and a lifetime of engagement with the arts.

Gerry Barton Watercolours of a vanished world — an artist’s journal

Hugh and Susan Price Glimpse Wellington’s past through these delightful, full-colour picture postcards.

A colourful account of late Victorian life, with some intriguing facts …

By the Seat of My Pants offers reassuring evidence that a ‘why the hell not’ attitude, accompanied by a lick or two of common sense, can still accomplish much. It is a hymn to a collection of colou…

This is a book for everyone who has experienced Wellington. It began as a series of pictorial features in a community newspaper, and its offbeat look at the city’s history has proved popular. Now i…

Jack Smith The story of New Zealand’s premier builder.

A fascinating look at Wellington’s suburban growth from 1900 to 1930.

Social Developments evokes the dizzying pace of change in the welfare sector in recent decades. It makes a significant contribution to the understanding of public management and welfare in New Zeal…

Ranginui Walker, Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, Mason Durie, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Taiarahia Black, Ngāpare Hopa, Wally Penetito, Margie Maaka and Atholl Anderson talk about what sh…

Brad Patterson, Richard S Hill & Kathryn Patterson (editors) – $59.95 Price range through $59.95This book is in tribute to Ian McLean Wards (1920–2003), who as researcher and writer, civil servant and cultural activist, contributed greatly to promoting awareness of history. The authors exp...

Jim Lynch takes us back to the turbulent Muldoon/Lange years with the shrewd insight of a political cartoonist.  

Neil Colquhoun Rich, poetic Kiwi cultural treasure — the songs of the pioneers: whalers, sealers, gumdiggers, gold­miners, unionists, and other hard cases.

Jack Smith – $64.99 Price range through $64.99This is a story of war and peace, of success and failure, and how New Zealand’s premier builder coped in the face of many challenges.