The Edible Backyard: A Practical Guide to Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round by Kath Irvine
$50.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath's sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they ne ...Show more
Eddy, Eddy by Kate De Goldi
$30.00 NZD
Category: YA Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexp ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$37.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Inside the Villains by Clotilde Perrin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Lift-the-Flaps / Push & Slide / Touch & Feel
An extraordinary pop-up book that reveals the secrets of the most famous fairy-tale villains--the giant, the wolf and the witch--with interactive flaps, a twist on well-known tales, and personality cards for each villain. Lift the flaps to see the diabolical thoughts inside the villains' heads, what hid ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...Show more
Pax (#1 Pax) by Sara Pennypacker
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year This paperback edition has french flaps. From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. ...Show more
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more
The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill
$19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12)
A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2017 Newbery Medal2017 Booklist Youth Editors' ChoiceOn seven Best Book ListsEvery year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby for the witch in the forest to keep her from terrorizing their town. But Xan is kind. She nourishes the babies with starlight and ...Show more
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
A beautiful gift edition of this poignant memoir on surviving the difficult times in life.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSigned Gift Edition with an exclusive foreword'Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself' Elizabeth Gilbert'A gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of ...Show more
Tree Sense - Ways of Thinking about Trees by Susette Goldsmith (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Essays | Reading Level: near fine
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us - if only we would listen. As climate change imposes significant challenges on the natural world we are being encouraged to plant trees. At the same time, urban intensification an ...Show more
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May
$26.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Reading Level: very good
'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path 'A peaceful rebuff to life in fast-forward' Guardian Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when w ...Show more