The Forgotten Forest: In Search of the Lost Plants and Fungi of Aotearoa by Robert Vennell
$40.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
A guide to the spectacular oddities of the New Zealand forest, by the bestselling author of The Meaning of Trees and Secrets of the Sea. Deep in the forest, in places you would never think to look, are some of the most remarkable creatures. Overlooked and unsung, this is the forgotten forest: a world ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$50.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things. | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide by Liv Sisson
$45.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
The complete introduction to finding, identifying and using mushrooms and other fungi in New Zealand. Enter and explore the fascinating world of fungi. In this practical and up-to-date guide, forager and fungus enthusiast Liv Sisson shares her top tips and takes the reader on a journey to discover the ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
$35.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things. | Reading Level: near fine
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover
$29.99 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her su ...Show more
Happy Place by Emily Henry
$37.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have left behind their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year ...Show more
Houseplants and Design: A New Zealand Guide by Liz Carlson
$45.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
Houseplants have never been hotter. They have the power to instantly turn a house into a home and to create a feeling of peace and calm, transforming both your physical space and your headspace.Bringing nature inside is a simple way to maintain a connection to the outdoors. To nurture an indoor garden i ...Show more
Otari: Two hundred years of Ōtari-Wilton's Bush by Bee Dawson
$80.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
Ōtari tells the story of Ōtari–Wilton’s Bush, the only botanic garden dedicated solely to the collection and conservation of the plants unique to Aotearoa New Zealand and a native bush reserve with over a hundred hectares of regenerating forest, including some of Wellington’s oldest trees. It begins w ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
$45.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one o ...Show more
Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques and Other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things. | Reading Level: near fine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back – only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south ...Show more
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (#2): MinaLima Edition by J.K. Rowling
$60.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things. | Series: Harry Potter
Prepare to be dazzled by this new edition of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, designed and illustrated by MinaLima. With over 150 full-colour illustrations and eight exclusive, interactive paper-engineered elements, readers can travel via the Floo Network, encounter the Whomping W ...Show more
Historic Homesteads of Hawke's Bay by Angus Gordon
$50.00 NZD
Category: A few of our favourite things.
These gracious homes - dotted across the sun-drenched uplands of Hawke's Bay - rose unashamedly from the golden fleeces on the sheep's backs, to become monuments to our settler heritage. Set in spacious grounds and framed by enormous exotic trees, such as oaks, gums or Norfolk pines, they stand as testa ...Show more