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Barry Crump - the man, the myth, the father.'Barry was never a father to me, but he did become a friend.'-Martin CrumpBarry Crump was a titan of New Zealand writing, his semi-autobiographical novels about life as a rugged outdoorsman selling millions of copies. In his time, he was held up as the qui...

A darkly comic, gritty, punch-in-the-guts new novel that captures life on the poverty line in Aotearoa now, from the author of 1986, Iceland and I Thought We'd Be Famous.Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face like a broken dinner plate. Fifteen years ago, her kid brother Eddy disappeared and she'...

Bookaroo pen pouch black.Can be adjusted to fit either A5 or A4 notebooks & journals.

A rhyming, light-hearted celebration of the different ways a family can grow.A wish began your journey, And now that you are here, Our family has grown with love, With love for you, my dear.This warm appreciation of love invites the youngest readers to share in the joy and excitement of expecting fa...

2023 Ngaio Marsh Award Winner Best First NovelShortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awardsto visit the Ockham Sampler PDFto nzbookawards.nz 2023 shortlistLonglisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood DaggerReveiwed by Rowena (Team member); A great r...

Owen Marshall's interview on RNZ Standing Room Only Aug 22New work from the master of the short story and author of the story 'Coming Home in the Dark' made into a major feature film.'Whenever I think of coming to punish my father, it's always in a strong wind, and that's blowing now as I drive up t...

Tim Saunders Interview with RNZ Nine to Noon Aug 22The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances.Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial ...

When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves. Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket.He's the first New Zeal...

One of the greatest stories of survival and adventure in the Arctic that inspired Shakespeare and Jules Verne.'The name of William Barents isn't that familiar to us these days..but this enthralling, elemental and literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance should change all that' Roger Al...

In the history of New Zealand sports, few players have achieved the legendary status of Billy Wallace - one of the first, and most gifted, rugby players to ever be associated with the game.Author Biography: Denis Dwyer has been passionately involved in sport since he played for an Oamaru junior rugb...

A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews.Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry....

A comprehensive and accessible visual history of music - from prehistory to the present day Why did jazz go Latin? And how did blues influence rock?Find out how music has shaped the world from prehistory to the present day. Classical or rock, everyone has their favourite music style, but how did you...

the writing is vivid, the experiences fascinating, and the insights of interest even to skippers of more modest vessels. Yachting MonthlyJaw-dropping insights into the unbelievable world of superyachts, woven in with life lessons learned from the most successful captain in the industry, this is a co...

'One of the greatest American novels of this or any time' GuardianThe first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age.John Grady Cole is...

'like a river in full spate: beautiful and dangerous' The TimesThe second volume of Cormac McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, a young boy comes of age in the desolate mountains of the Mexican border.Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, Cormac McCarthy's follow...

'The completed trilogy emerges as a landmark in American literature' GuardianIn , two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition.In the fall of 1...

Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, a...

“I've found over the many years that, when elections come along, I just sit still at my Beehive desk, buy a coffee, the people around me all change, and I just carry on."This is the story of Peter McCardle's journey through the last thirty years in New Zealand politics. Beginning as a National MP,...

So many families, some big and some small. Each one is different, let's look at them all!In this warm and humorous exploration of families, much-loved Australian children's author Jane Godwin has teamed with internationally acclaimed Argentinian creator Yael Frankel. Together, they weave a colourful...

Steve (retired Bookseller) comment after reading.This is not a dull non-fiction book, I was captivated. Ranulph Feinnes, polar adventurer is a master storyteller who understands & captured the organisational, fund raising problems that polar travel require, allowing him to write vividly & with empat...

Special Price $28, rrp $32.99Reviewed by Karen (Retired Bookseller); Benjamin Myers lastest novel, "" is set in the south West of England during a long, hot summer, in 1989.Two characters, one a SAS veteran, Calvert, who served in the Falkland war, and the other a very talented old hippy, Redbone. T...

Leo has never known a father figure, but that won't stop him from telling his class about someone cool, courageous and clever on Tell Us About Your Dad Day - someone who might not be his dad, but is his everything.A heart-warming story about bravery and modern family dynamics that will resonate with...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards; BOOKSELLERS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTIONto visit the Ockhams Sampler; Extracts rom the finalist books in the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Award...

Toyota is a motoring icon. From modest beginnings, it has become an automotive superpower. As part of its global expansion, the brand first arrived on New Zealand soil in the late 1960s, and has grown to become an integral slice of Kiwi culture.Transport: general interestHardbackSteve Holmes192 pagesH: 210mm W: 260mm