Calendars

Twelve colourways of New Zeland landscapes celebrating this beautiful and diverse country. Each month features a different collage of beaches or farms, iconic New Zealand plants & buildings, rolling surf & lush forests. Design by Jane Galloway & Stuart Mackenzie.

30 x 30 cm calendar

Tramping is one of New Zealand's favourite recreational past times, and this country boasts an amazing network of tramping tracks and huts. This calendar brings together photography from outstanding tramping author/photographers Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown and Nick Groves, who capture the sense of adventure and natural beauty of the tramping experience. Detailed digital format maps included for each tramp described. Size: 355mm x 275mm Format: Shrink wrapped with mailing envelope.

Matariki is the ever-popular Maori New Year, and Te Papa's Matariki Maramataka is the perfect way to mark its beginning - as well as celebrating New Zealand's unique indigenous culture and natural world all through the year.

The calendar runs from June 2011, when the star formation known as Matariki (the Pleiades) officially appears in the sky, through to May 2012.

Each tribe had its own lore around Matariki, a time for considering the rhythms of the land and how to protect and sustain resources. Connected... read more

30 x 30 cm calendar

A pop-out advent calendar featuring the lovely artwork of 2009 Caldecott Medal-winning artist Beth Krommes. Find a sticker under each window to decorate the winter night scene!

This September, go back to school with Greg Heffley, the kid who made "wimpy" cool! Based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Twentieth Century Fox's soon-to-be-released sequel to the blockbuster Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie.

Featuring both new and historic crosswords, the "Daily Telegraph Crossword Diary for 2008" will challenge, entertain and satisfy every crossword puzzler, with a full-sized puzzle for every week of the year. In the "Daily Telegraph Sudoku Diary 2008", Michael Mepham offers a whole year of number-placing logic fun, with two puzzles for every week, graded 'gentle', 'moderate', 'tough' or 'diabolical'. Details of national and religious holidays as well as astronomical information are included. The solutions are also provided.

SOLD OUT No longer available Now in its fifth year, this diary doesn't just record your daily doings; it dictates them, resulting in what the editors call 'extreme self-improvement'. Part instruction book, part religious cult, part sheer mayhem, this anarchic humour bestseller is guaranteed to change anyone's life, and who knows? It may even be for the better... "Guaranteed to make you smile" - The Times". "Don't settle for a boring black desk diary when you can have the latest. This diary will change your life" - Guardian... read more

William Shakespeare produced the loveliest sonnets the language has yet known, but he was equally creative at scabrous verbal abuse, ego-crushing personal appraisals, cudgel-blunt challenges, rapier-sharp ripostes, pungent put-downs, and killing kiss-offs. This uproarious calendar presents 313 brief excerpts from the plays (each Saturday and Sunday share a page and an excerpt), with citations including act and scene; notes on who is abusing whom and why; and explanations of no longer familiar words. A poultice for ill humor and a d... read more

Anne Taintor returns with a new selection of her ever-popular wickedly witty women in this handy weekly planner.

January - Who Sank the Boat, Pamela Allen February - Pigtails the Pirate, David Elliot March - The Animal Undie Ball, Ruth Paul April - Pudding, Fraser Williamson May - The Littlest Llama, Jenny Cooper June - A Booming in the Night, Helen Taylor July - How Maui Found His Mother, Peter Gossage August - A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree, Dick Frizzell September - Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant, Gavin Bishop October - Clubs, Jacqui Colley November - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, Lynley Dodd December - The Christmas Carava... read more