Bella: My Life in Food by Annabel Langbein

$30.00 NZD

Category: Cooking | Reading Level: near fine

Due October Bursting with tender and funny anecdotes and gorgeous recipes, Bella is Annabel Langbein's must-read memoir. For the first time, Annabel Langbein, New Zealand's most popular cookbook author, writes about her remarkable life and how food has shaped it, highlighting some of the recipes that ha ve resonated most strongly with her over the years. From her childhood fascination with cooking to a teenage flirtation as a Maoist hippie, to possum trapping and living off the land as a hunter and forager, to travelling and starting her own croissant business in Brazil, Annabel's life has always been centred on food and nature. Out of this came an obsession with creating cookbooks, introducing a generation of cooks to her simple recipes for delicious, stylish meals. Annabel has lived a huge and varied life, and she writes vividly about her many adventures. From throughout this rich life in food she has chosen 60 key recipes, created with her signature style and flair that make cooking easy for everyone, sharing them in this beautifully photographed book. ...Show more

Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker

$20.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine

An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown head-first into the deep end of the music industry. What followed were some of the highest highs, and the lowest of lows. Few knew about the darkness in Stan's past - the violent upbringing, the sexual abuse and the struggle to be more than just a survivor. Stan Walker: My Story is a personal reflection on life growing up in a family where love and violence were horribly entwined. It's a story about forgiveness and a journey to redemption. It's a tale of a young Maori boy from Tauranga finding his place on the world stage while never forgetting who he is and where he came from. Stan's is a story of survival against impossible odds. Abuse and addiction, poverty and excess, cancer and discrimination - Stan tells it all with startling honesty and insight, and with a wonderful sense of warmth and hope. It's an important and un-putdownable read. ...Show more

The Mackenzie Affair by James McNeish

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Capes of China Slide Away by James Bertram

$25.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins

$16.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine

Linda Collins gets up on a Monday morning, dresses for work, makes coffee and goes into her daughter Victoria’s bedroom. Why hasn’t Vicky got up yet? It’s an important day: the start of the second term of her final year at school. Today she will hear her latest exam results. The bedroom is empty. So be gins every parent’s worst nightmare. Collins, a New Zealand journalist based in Singapore, writes with startling candour about her daughter’s suicide: the secrets she kept from her parents, the revelations in the personal journals she left behind, and the struggle of Collins and Malcolm McLeod, Victoria’s father, to find answers in the midst of enormous grief. How, they ask themselves, could they have missed the signs? What did the counsellors at Victoria’s school know about her state of mind? Did her school friends have any idea how desperate she was? And above all, why would a beautiful, talented, much loved young woman take her own life? Loss Adjustment is a wake-up call. New Zealand has the highest suicide rate for teenagers among the world’s wealthy developed countries. Most of those who kill themselves are, like Victoria McLeod, aged 15 to 19. Linda Collins examines the tragedy of teenage suicide from her profoundly personal viewpoint, while Victoria’s journals, uncovered after her death, give an incredibly valuable insight into the unseen stresses and anxieties suffered by many teenagers.  ...Show more

Unsung Hero - Barzillai Quaife by Peter Kennett

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

William Swainson of Fern Grove - The Anatomy of a Nineteenth Century Naturalist by Sheila Natusch & Geoffrey Swainson

$14.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

We Will Not Cease - The Autobiography of a Conscientious Objector by Archibald Baxter

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Tamu: A New Zealand Family in Java by Marie Gray

$12.00 NZD

Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good

Te Puea - A Biography by Michael King

$20.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: very good

The Wounded Lion: Octavius Hadfield 1814-1904 - Pioneer Missionary, Friend of the Maori & Primate of New Zealand by Vhristopher Lethbridge

$35.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

Pioneers of the Plains: the Deans of Canterbury by Gordon Ogilvie

$45.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good