Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History, 1830-1900 by William Cottrell
$150.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era is without doubt the most lavishly illustrated New Zealand book to be published so far this century, and will rank among the most historically significant. A definitive account of the furniture and interiors of nineteenth-century New Zealand, and of the cabinetm ...Show more
Kahui Whetu: Contemporary Maori Art - A Carver's Perspective by Roi Toia and Todd Couper
$44.99 NZD
Category: Lifestyle and Culture | Reading Level: very good
Roi Toia and Todd Couper are exceptional contemporary carvers, based in Rotorua, New Zealand. Their works come out of tribal histories, cosmology and a keen spiritual awareness; these are contemporary carvings that blossom from knowledge of ancient lore, primarily Maori, but open to and encompassing oth ...Show more
An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Hebes by Michael Bayly
$99.99 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: Near Fine
This book is the most comprehensive guide yet to the identification, classification, and biology of the flowering plant genera Hebe and Leonohebe. Hebes are grown throughout the world. Of 88 wild species, all but three are endemic to New Zealand. This book focuses on hebes found in the wild and provides ...Show more
Extinct Birds of New Zealand by Alan Tennyson
$64.99 NZD
Category: Environment
In New Zealand's lush rainforests, isolated from the outside world for 80 million years, many extraordinary birds evolved. They included the giant moa, the beautiful huia, and the largest eagle the earth has ever seen. Within a few hundred years, human settlement extinguished 58 unique and beautiful spe ...Show more
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
$10.00 NZD
$20.00 (50% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
$5.95 NZD
$9.95 (40% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in "Penguin Classics". Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when ...Show more