| Author: | Kay Hannam |
Like a duck to water is how Kay Hannam described her first visit to the Canterbury Sun Club now known as Pineglades Naturist Club in 1984. Kay's vision of 'creating the place to be' materialised when partner Brian Williams found the ideal location in Lake Tekapo. Aoraki Naturally soon became known world-wide as the pair promo... read more
| Author: | Chris Mann |
After the success of his first book, Six Feet DOWN UNDER, Chris Mann returns with MORE stories from his experiences while working in the funeral industry. Unlike his first book, this is not an autobiography, but it follows similar themes and stories. For those of you who loved Chris’s writing style, humour and interesti... read more
| Author: | Qais Akbar Omar |
With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul. Qais Akbar Omar's young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and the arrival of international tr... read more
| Author: | Jimi Hunt |
In an effort to conquer his depression, Jimi Hunt decided to travel the length of New Zealand's longest river...on a lilo. Jimi Hunt is a man who has spent most of his life doing ridiculous things for his own amusement. Things like building the country's biggest waterslide; playing golf through the streets of downtown Auckla... read more
| Author: | Ian Mune |
Ian Mune's resonant growl and his characterful face are an institution in the world of New Zealand theatre, film and TV. Instantly recognised by generations of New Zealanders, he has been a central figure of screen and stage in this country since the 1960s. Ian Mune grew up in Tauranga, and had an early infatuation with the t... read more
| Author: | Edmund De Waal |
This is the definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was ent... read more
| Author: | David White |
On the morning of 23 September 2009 Helen Meads was murdered by her husband Greg at the stables on their Matamata farm. It was the final chapter in years of control and abuse. Here, Helen's father David White describes the events of that day, and what led to it, and tells of the ordeals that a family is subjected to when one ... read more
| Author: | Kristian Anderson |
There are love stories and then there's the story of Kristian and Rachel Anderson. When Kristian wanted to show his wife Rachel how much he loved her after learning he was terminally ill, he ended up winning a million hearts around the world, thanks to the now famous YouTube video he made for her 35th birthday. Social media i... read more
| Author: | Peter R Jackson |
A Sacrificial Pawn is a story of survival. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of Wiorld War 2. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice. Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city was being evacuated and within days he was a pr... read more
| Author: | Wendyl Nissen |
Wendyl Nissen's year-long journey towards self-sufficiency. The book details each home discovery as it happens - both the triumphs and the disasters - while Wendyl slowly sheds her corporate life. A Home Companion is the book for any woman who finds herself yearning to get her hands covered in soil and become a green goddess.
| Author: | Andrew Morton |
A beautifully packaged, collectable volume to commemorate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
On 16 November 2010, the long-awaited engagement of HRH Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton was formally announced, with a London wedding promised for April 2011. Andrew Morton, the leading royal b... read more
| Author: | Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
Here are the pleasures and perils of compulsive long-distance motorcycling and one man's mission to outride everyone else.
| Author: | Rod Vaughan |
This is a story about New Zealand's most experienced television journalist, Rod Vaughan, who's been at the forefront of news and current affairs for more than 40 years. His remarkable career has taken him to almost every corner of the world where he has reported on an extraordinary array of issues that have won him a raft of ... read more
| Author: | Mark Garner |
What is being a New Zealand paramedic really like? Do they really just go to graphic car accidents or is there more to it than that? Why would anyone want to become a paramedic anyway? And what sort of people call for an ambulance? For the first time ever in New Zealand, readers can find answers to all these questions and mor... read more
| Author: | Helga Weiss |
In 1938, when her diary begins, Helga is eight years old. Alongside her father and mother and the 45,000 Jews who live in Prague, she endures the Nazi invasion and regime: Her father is denied work, schools are closed to her, she and her parents are confined to their flat. Then deportations begin and her friends and family st... read more
| Author: | Kristine Barnett |
Kristine Barnett's son Jacob is today, at age twelve, working on extending Einstein's theory of relativity. His story is remarkable, and all the more so because his prodigious mind and talents were almost lost after he was diagnosed with autism at age three. An extraordinary true story of what it is like to live with an exce... read more
| Author: | Jeffrey Paparoa Holman |
On 6 April 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot breaks cloud at 3,000 feet, near the island of Ishigaki. He plunges his Suisei divebomber into a fatal dive at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. On the signals deck, Chief Petty Officer W. T. Holman sees him coming - he has just seconds to live. Intense and accurate fi... read more
| Author: | Robert Edward Bridge |
In his mid teens Robert Bridge is imprisoned in the security wing of New Zealand's most notorious mental hospital. Faced with insane adult criminals, lengthy spells of solitary confinement, staff intimidation and psychotic outbreaks of murderous violence, he must learn to survive, and to keep his sanity, while living in a pla... read more
| Author: | Dr. Hawa Abdi |
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of the country creating one ... read more