Biter by Claudia Jardine
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Ancient Greek epigrams drive a bitingly contemporary first poetry collection.Filled with hickeys puttanesca and tart wit, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine's debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets, ecstatic odes and startlingly v ...Show more
Ruin and Other Stories by Emma Hislop
$30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and sometimes the violence they exact in reveng ...Show more
Calamities! by Jane Arthur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In her second, spine-cracking collection, Jane Arthur wants ‘to get morbid’. Moving with ease between the cerebral and the ethereal she measures her anxieties against a cosmic canvas – taking in everything from meteorites and distant planets to pomanders and cat’s ears. Whether contemplating time, regr ...Show more
The Drinking Game: How big business, the media and politicians shape the way you drink by Guyon Espiner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Politics
An incisive analysis of how our drinking culture is influenced by the government, media and big business, by investigative journalist Guyon Espiner. Ever wondered why it always seems like a good time for a drink? Four years ago, investigative journalist Guyon Espiner gave up drinking alcohol. He had be ...Show more
Takahe: Bird of Dreams by Alison Ballance
$60.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
Takahe are ‘strange and wonderful avian beasts’, big purple-blue birds with a striking red beak and legs. Once thought extinct, they were famously rediscovered in 1946 by Invercargill doctor Geoffrey Orbell, who found a small population living in a remote valley in the Murchison Mountains of Fiordland. ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
$38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Ora: Healing Ourselves - Indigenous knowledge, Healing and Wellbeing by Leonie Pihama, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
$65.00 NZD
Category: Health & wellbeing
This collection brings together indigenous thinkers and practitioners from Aotearoa and internationally to discuss the effects of trauma on indigenous peoples across social, economic, political and cultural environments. The authors explore understandings and practices of indigenous people, grounded in ...Show more