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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Weather by Jenny Offill
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Dept. of Speculation, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence. 'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says wha ...Show more
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
$43.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure." --Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate ...Show more
24 Hours in the Kiwi Bush by Gillian Torckler
$20.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
When night falls and all is quiet, there is a whole world of activity, deep in the heart of our native bush . . . Get up close and personal with the flora and fauna of our country over a 24-hour cycle. Follow the nocturnal kiwi and weta as they scour the forest floor for food in the early hours; flit a ...Show more
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill's Weather, Deborah Levy's Hot Milk and Diana Evans' Ordinary People. 'Taut, unsettling, ferocious' - Fatima Bhutto, author of The Runaways. 'Acerbic, full of wit ...Show more
How To Live by Helen Rickerby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell ...Show more
Awesome Women Activity Book by Lisa Regan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This wonderful activity book will inspire young readers everywhere! Discover the world's most extraordinary women through a host of brilliant practical ways, including brain-teasing puzzles, quizzes, spot-the-difference, art projects, and even sign language learning! All these activities are themed arou ...Show more
Abigail and the Birth of the Sun by Matthew Cunningham
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A bright and beautiful exploration of the big bang theory and the birth of our solar system for young children, all wrapped up in a bedtime story. Abigail is a curious little girl. She likes to discover the answers to really BIG questions. One night, she thinks of a question that's SO BIG she can't slee ...Show more
Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Unti ...Show more
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that's a world away from his childhood growing up in Alabama. His father died a few weeks ago, but Walla ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris with Ross Calman, Mark Derby & Piripi Walker
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Ground-breaking full-colour graphic novel about Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi. This reorua (bilingual) graphic-novel-style flip book presents important information in a visually appealing and engaging way. The text (in both English and te reo Māori) and illustrations work together to pro ...Show more
Kuwi & Friends Māori Picture Dictionary by Kat Quin; translation by Pānia Papa
$35.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
Beginners Māori Language Picture Dictionary, for the Whole Family. From the #1 bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of the Kuwi the Kiwi series, Kat Merewether, comes a large scale, stunningly illustrated visual dictionary. Full of over 1000 basic words in te reo Māori and English, perfe ...Show more
