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Every Bastard Says No : The 42 Below Story order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Justine & Geoff Ross
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
In Stock: 4
If you haven't heard of the success of 42 Below Vodka you must have been living under a rock! Initially brewed by Wellington advertising man Geoff Ross in his garage, everything about this vodka was audacious, from the very notion of making high-end vodka Downunder to its shock-and-awe advertising campaigns and the fact that it would go on to beat the world's great brands in international vodka competitions. But the most remarkable thing about 42 Below was the way it stole the world's bartenders' hearts and eventually attracted the attention of liquor giant Bacardi, which paid millions to buy the brand two years ago. Every Bastard Says No is the rollicking tale of how Geoff Ross, his wife Justine and their business partners and loyal staff risked all and worked their butts off to do what New Zealanders so dream of doing but so rarely manage: build a brand that makes the world sit up and take notice. It's an inspirational business ... more
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Trust : A true story of women and gangs order quantity
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Author: Pip Desmond
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Winner 2010 NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction.

In 1977 an idealistic young doctor’s daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run-down old house in inner-city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T-shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. ‘Whaddya want?’ the woman growled.
So began Pip Desmond’s extraordinary time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative set up in the heady years of feminism, community activism and the first stirrings of the Maori renaissance. For three years this unique, unruly group of girls did physical ‘men’s work’, lived together, and stood side by side against a backdrop of gang violence, police harassment and a society that didn’t want to know. When the government changed the rules for relief work, Aroha Trust folded, but the friendships endured. Trust tells the women’s stories – much of it in their own ... more
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Billy T: the life and times of Billy T James order quantity
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Author: Matt Elliott
Published by: Harpercollins
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Billy T James was a larger-than-life comedian who gave us some of our best belly laughs. An accomplished singer and musician, he created enduring characters, poking the borax at the oh-so-delicate state of race relations in New Zealand in a way that stood him head and shoulders above other performers of his era. Like John Clarke's Fred Dagg, Billy T's characters were Kiwi through and through and we loved him for it. When he died in his early forties, of complications following a heart transplant, the nation was shocked - first by his premature death, and then by one of the first highly publicised interracial body-snatching incidents. His Pakeha wife and his iwi disagreed over funeral arrangements, ending in the taking by force of his body from their home in Auckland to a marae in Ngaruawahia. The sight of iwi and family battling in the media and reports of his body being transported in a van made sickening headlines. His widow, Lynn ... more
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9780670074358
Katherine Mansfield : The Story-Teller order quantity
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Author: Kathleen Jones
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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I was jealous of her writing – the only writing I have been jealous of.—Virginia Woolf

Widely acknowledged as New Zealand's finest writer, Katherine Mansfield holds a special place in the hearts of New Zealanders. A new biography is a significant literary event.

Katherine Mansfield: The Story-teller is the first new biography of Mansfield for a quarter of a century. It is published at a time when interest in Mansfield and her work is increasing throughout the world.

Kathleen Jones gives a vivid portrayal of Mansfield, correcting previous misinterpretations of her illnesses and relationships, and weaving a compelling drama from the detail. The story extends further still, beyond Mansfield's death in 1923, to include the subsequent life of her husband, John Middleton Murry, shedding fascinating new light on the way Murry controversially manipulated the publication of some of Mansfield's unpublished work.

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Motorcycle Masala order quantity
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Author: Peter Riordan
Published by: Hazard Press Limited
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Winner of City of Brisbane/Singapore Airlines Prize: Asia-Pacific Travel Writing 2000.
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Ned and Katina : A true love story order quantity
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Author: Patricia Grace
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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A true story of love in wartime and in peace by one of New Zealand's finest writers. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far North.

They live a long, rich and happy life together, raising a family and involving themselves in community affairs there and in the Wellington region. Ned dies in 1987, Katina in 1996. Years later, the whanau of Ned and Katina approached writer Patricia Grace to compile their parents' story. Ned & Katina is the result. This warm, beautifully written true story is impossible to put down.

First published October 2009.
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9781877372766
Promised New Zealand : Fleeing Nazi persecution order quantity
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Author: Freya Klier (tr Jenny Rawlings)
Published by: University of Otago Press
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Promised New Zealand is the true tale of refugees who fled Nazi terror in Europe for a safe haven on the opposite side of the world – New Zealand. Jenny Rawlings has translated Klier’s German text – a bestseller in its county of origin. The narrative skilfully interweaves the lives of twenty-four refugees: the Viennese philosopher Karl Popper is saved by travelling across the oceans, German author Karl Wolfskel likewise. The journey brings others to this land, even from Dr Mengele's experiment rooms in Auschwitz.
By day, police hold placards in front of Jewish shops, emblazoned with the words 'Don't buy from Jews'; others put up signs to identify places where Jews are to be denied entry. At night, SA men smash Jewish shop windows, owners are terrorised into relinquishing their businesses, and homes are visited by Gestapo who take family members away. The year is 1933 and this is life in the Fuhrer's Germany. In the ensuing ... more
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9781869508067
Richie McCaw: A tribute to a modern-day rugby great order quantity
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Author: John Matheson
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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Captain of the All blacks, McCaw has carved a niche for himself as a modern day great. The book charts his career from Cantervury and Crusaders star to All Black glory.
Richie McCaw’s standing within the All Blacks team is unmatched. The captain of Graham Henry’s team since 2006, McCaw has carved a niche for himself as the modern-day great within the All Blacks - the charismatic, never-say-die leader whom fans of the Men in Black have come to hold in the same light as many of the most revered captains of yesteryear.
Richie McCaw: A Tribute to a Modern-day Rugby Great charts the career of the proud Canterbury and Crusaders star who first burst into the national rugby conscience in 2001 when he helped his province to an NPC championship. Soon after, he was making his All Blacks debut in Dublin, beginning a test career that will ultimately culminate at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand.
Author John Matheson tells the story of how the ... more
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9781869404543
South West of Eden : A Memoir 1932-1956 order quantity
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Author: C K Stead
Published by: Auckland University Press
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'I said many times I would not write autobiography - partly because it might signal, either to my inner self, or to others, a "signing off" as a writer; and partly because I did not want to mark off areas that were fact in my life from those that might yet be invented. Fiction likes to move, disguised and without a passport, back and forth across that border, and prefers it should be unmarked and without check-points.' - C K Stead. Happily for the many readers of his novels, poems, criticism and essays, C K Stead has changed his mind. In South-West of Eden, a coming-of-age memoir by New Zealand's leading poet, novelist and critic writes of a life 'lived by history' -running wild in Cornwall Park, joining the Labour Party aged seven, discovering poetry in a third-form English class and enjoying a newly married annus mirabilis in a flat on Takapuna Beach down the road from Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame.
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Telling Tales : A Life In Writing order quantity
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Author: William Taylor
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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In this warm and witty memoir William Taylor writes engagingly about life as a writer, teacher and solo father.
An imaginative, original and spirited individual, he taught for many years in the Central and the Lower North Island, often in single - or two-teacher schools. After the first of his six adult novels was published in 1970, he continued to play a prominent role in his local community. He was Principal of Ohakune School and Mayor of Ohakune from 1981 to 1988.
His first novel for younger readers was published in 1981, and in 1986 he began writing full-time - his work adapted for theatre and television, frequently translated, and continuously in print for over 40 years.
This is a fascinating and entertaining memoir from a renowned New Zealand author.

First published May 2010.
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9781741668162
Together Alone : The story of the Finn brothers order quantity
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NZ$ 42.00 each
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Author: Jeff Apter
Published by: Random House
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To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount - where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would also work its way straight into his younger brother Neil's DNA.
Success for the brothers was a long time coming it took several turbulent years in Split Enz - an art-pop band Neil would join in 1977, despite Tim's reservations - before they produced a genuine hit and connected with the mainstream. And it was achieved by one of Neil's songs, 'I Got You', which wasn't the sweetest pill brother Tim had ever tasted. After all, Split Enz was his band, his odyssey, his obsession.
When the Enz came undone, their paths split. Neil led world-beaters Crowded House, while Tim immersed himself in a series of bold if not always successful solo ... more
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Together Alone : The story of the Finn brothers order quantity
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Author: Jeff Apter
Published by: Random House
In Stock: 2
To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount - where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would also work its way straight into his younger brother Neil's DNA.
Success for the brothers was a long time coming it took several turbulent years in Split Enz - an art-pop band Neil would join in 1977, despite Tim's reservations - before they produced a genuine hit and connected with the mainstream. And it was achieved by one of Neil's songs, 'I Got You', which wasn't the sweetest pill brother Tim had ever tasted. After all, Split Enz was his band, his odyssey, his obsession.
When the Enz came undone, their paths split. Neil led world-beaters Crowded House, while Tim immersed himself in a series of bold if not always successful solo ... more
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9780986457425
Up the Andes order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Jo Morgan
Published by: Phantom House Books
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A ride from the Alto Plano of Bolivia and Peru to the frozen tip of Patagonia; on the world's most dangerous road, where the stakes are high, on to Argentina's fabled Ruta 40, where the steaks are large and cheap. Across salt pans, into mud holes, up the Andes and down again; past the ruins of the ruins of Macchu Pichu, and on the edge of the epicentre of the Chilean earthquake. Through a land of contrasts - mountains and lowlands, deserts and glaciers, wealth and poverty, speakers of Spanish and us with our phrasebooks, tourist traps and lands that time forgot. Join Gareth and Joanne Morgan and their motorcycling companions as they travel to South America on the latest leg of their quest to ride the world by bike. Thrills, spills, mishaps and misadventures, near misses and close shaves, punctures and breakdowns, injury and insult, frictions and frustrations - the rigours of expedition riding in this far-flung corner of the world ... more
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9780473160357
A Bridge Over:The Story Of John Masters, veteran fighter order quantity
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Author: Allan Marriott
Published by: Masters Family
In Stock: 1
Dop November 2009, Christchurch

In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was the last New Zealand commander of 161 Battery in Vietnam. He brought the troops home in 1971 to mixed feelings across the country.
Returning soldiers were denied entry to RSAs. Isolated, some punished themselves and withdrew from society, others developed unexpected illnesses and cancers. Reports sponsored by New Zealand governments denied that soldiers had been in contact with chemical herbicides such as Agent Orange. For nearly 40 years, Vietnam veterans struggled for recognition.
Unknowingly, John had also brought home the map that eventually proved the extent to which New Zealand soldiers in Vietnam were in contact with chemical ... more
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9780143202660
Agents Abroad: the story of the New Zealand trade Commissioner Service order quantity
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Author: NZ Trade & Enterprise
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
In Stock: 1
DoP September 2009, Auckland
Softcover

Agents Abroad is the story of the people who have helped build New Zealand's trade over more than a century. As the first history of the New Zealand Trade Commissioner Service, it covers early trade promotional work from the late 1800s through to 2003, when New Zealand Trade and Enterprise was formed. Written by former and current trade officials, this book contains anecdotes from Trade Commissioners and their families, who lived and worked in many different cultures. It also includes photographs illustrating New Zealand's growth from a supplier of raw material to the wide range of manufactured goods and services expected today. A feature of the book is the number of behind-the-scenes personal anecdotes by trade commissioner staff writing from the front line.
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9781869793302
A Life On Gorge River : New Zealand's remotest family order quantity
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Author: Robert Long
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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Robert Long and his family - wife Catherine, and children Christan (17) and Robyn (14) - live in complete isolation, in a hut two days' walk south of Haast in South Westland. Robert has lived there for nearly 30 years; Catherine for 20 and the kids all their lives. Their only contact with the outside world is a helicopter or plane once a month, and two trips a year to the 'outside world'.This is the story of how and why Robert - known locally as 'Beansprout' - came to live at Gorge River, and the family's experiences there over the years, living self-sufficiently and forging close bonds with the natural environment. It is an inspiring tale of one man's decision to 'drop out' of capitalist society and successfully establish a lifestyle most New Zealanders can't even imagine, harking back to the days of the earliest pioneers.

First published June 2010.

Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w152mm 412g picture sections
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9780143011651
All This and a Bookshop Too order quantity
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Author: Dorothy Butler
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Dorothy Butler is an international award-winning authority on children's books and reading. She has also been a successful teacher, an innovative bookseller and the much-loved author of children's books, all the while raising eight lively children with her husband Roy. Now in her eighties, in All This and a Bookshop Too Dorothy shares the inspiring story of her adult life. Picking up from the first volume of her autobiography, There Was a Time, Dorothy eloquently writes of her many consuming interests, her friendships and her family: her early married life with Roy Butler, living in a tent on Auckland's North Shore, and later setting up a speciality children's bookstore in their home; about becoming an international reading specialist and writing her own award-winning books. Dorothy's book is both a deeply personal story of private triumphs and tragedies, and a salute to the golden age of children's book publishing and retailing in ... more
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9781877460210
A Long Slow Affair of the Heart : An adventure on the French canals order quantity
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Author: Bruce Ansley
Published by: Shoal Bay Press
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One morning our narrator wakes up and wants to change his life. He wants escape and adventure. His wife is won over, despite being completely happy with things as they are. He throws in his job, they cut their ties and set off to live on the French canals. They buy a boat called the River Queen in Holland, sail through Belgium to France. In 37 years of marriage his wife has been partner to previous escapes with, as they say, mixed results. La belle France turns out to be a dream - life is full of flowers, eclairs and adventure. But aboard the boat a more enduring romance is playing out. A life's love may not survive the journey. Our hero embraces canal life with vigour, while Sally, though brave and determined, finds that the dark, murky canals and their terrifying locks dampen her spirits. She longs for home, her sons and the comforts of her own life. This is a beautifully told story about a dream, about love and a crisis: a journey ... more
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9781869410292
An Autobiography (To the Is-land/An Angel at My Table/The Envoy from Mirror City) order quantity
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Author: Janet Frame
Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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A beautiful new edition, celebrating Janet Frame’s life and bringing together all three award-winning books of her autobiography: To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table and The Envoy from Mirror City. “One of the greatest autobiographies written this century.”
— Michael Holroyd.

First published 1982, 1984 & 1985; this omnibus edition 1989.
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Angelina : From Stromboli to D'Urville Island order quantity
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Author: Gerard Hindmarsh
Published by: Craig Potton Publishing
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In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Criscillo left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli, off Sicily, to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world.

From the age of eight she had been betrothed to her cousin, Vincenzo Moleta, who was now twice her age and taking her to a new life on D'Urville Island in New Zealand.Facing the fierce tides and weather of this wild island on the edge of Cook Strait, and having to cope with loneliness, the incessant toil of a pioneer farm, and the bitterness of a developing family feud, Angelina found solace in an unlikely friendship with a high-born Maori woman, Wetekia Ruruku Elkington, who lived near by. Together they shared their own struggles, their different cultures and lack of English language; a process that awakened Angelina to her own inner strengths. Angelina and Vincenzo finally left D'Urville Island in 1946 and both died within a few months of each other in ... more
 
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