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‘Powerful, humane and deeply affecting, Lister’s wise and truthful writing makes this essential reading for anyone touched, and utterly confused, by grief.’ Sali HughesWhat does it mean to become a widow at 35?In her mid-thirties Kat Lister lost her husband to brain cancer. After...

Original price was: $ . $39.99 Current price is: $39.99.Author: Eleanor CattonPublication date: 09/02/2023on the move … A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers...

For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand’s best-known naturewriters and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love ofthe ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the HaurakiGulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine b...

Author: Dan BrownPublication date: 09/09/2025The thrilling and long-awaited new Robert Langdon novel from globally bestselling author Dan Brown.In stock and ready to ship

Stephen Donald hed himself into All Blacks folklore with that ‘kick’ in the 2011 Rugby World Cup final at Eden Park. Donald, one of the country’s most popular All Blacks, had not originally been wanted for the World Cup squad. He was whitebaiting in the Waikato and effectively off...

Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New...

This book chronicles in words and pictures the life of Mika, an iconic gay Maori performance artist. Mika takes us deep inside the gay and Maori rights movements and reveals to readers a fabulous revolution in performance and identity. Mika (Neil Gudsell) grew up in Timaru, adopted into a white fam...

Ray Woolf – Singer, actor and television host Ray came to New Zealand as a 17-year old pop singer from London He joined the wave of young New Zealanders in the likes of C’Mon and Happen Inn on New Zealand’s only television channel He fronted Ray Woolf and the Avengers He entertain...

Born on a small island in Scotland to a local girl and an Australian serviceman, raised in a working class, dysfunctional, often violent, itinerant household around the UK and Europe, O’Rourke rose to become the Secretary for Education for New Zealand, the Director of Education at the World B...

A beautiful woman in winged eyeliner and a low-cut top lies on a bed urging her favourite cricketer to win the next match. In another post, she pouts at the camera from a hot tub. She posts a selfie with a cleric, wearing his cap at a jaunty angle. Her posts are viewed millions of times and the com...

Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being.Now, in his first book, he draws on his own experiences – of growing up without h...

Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber’s a hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas and how to rock a sexy scar. It’s real, like totally, really real.Actor, writer and comedian, Celeste Barber is one very funny woman – not to ment...

A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to ch...

New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman – poet, novelist, critic, activist – C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Aus...

Michael Kenneth Moore was probably the country’s last working class Prime Minister and while the book is inevitably political, it is also a remarkable New Zealand story about an ordinary kiwi achieving extraordinary things. This book is based on conversations held with Mike Moore over the pas...

‘This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read. It will make you want to get& better, whatever better means for you.’Lisa Taddeo,& New York Times& bestselling author of& Three Women&&For fans...

The international #1 bestselling memoir by Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden, about the year that would forever change both a family and a country.In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered for their traditional Thanksgiving celebration. But this year felt different f...

Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, Maurice Shadbolt played a leading role in projecting New Zealand to the world throughout the second half of the 20th century. In Volume Two Philip Temple tells of Shadbolt’s epic coverage of the W.B. Sutch spy trial, his journalis...

Extraordinary stories from a lifetime spent conducting interviews. This is the world of the dreaded door-knock from the other side of the door. Trish Palmer has been working as an interviewer and area manager for market research companies for over 20 years, invited into the homes and private lives...

The memoir of a Holocaust survivor keeping alive the stories of his generation.For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors.Volunteering at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre, Phillip has listened tirelessly to their memo...

Jess Quinn’s inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she’s come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others.In stock and ready to ship

Twin sisters Amber and Serena Shine on strength, survival and a lifetime seeking adventureAmber and Serena Shine have wild in their blood. From their first steps, the twins set out from their family farm in rural Waiuku with the bush and mountains in sight. Together they’ve run the world̵...

In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win.Never...

The Fix:In 1966, international conman Robert Gardner brought a highly skilled crew of grifters to New Zealand to pull off the biggest swindle. This was executed with professional precision, until two young girls played detective and stumbled upon a crucial mistake, but was it too late? Gardner skip...