The Illustrated Denniston Rose & Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick

$65.00 NZD

Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The compelling story of Rose in the best-selling Denniston novels has drawn thousands of people to explore the abandoned settlement on the South Island's remote West Coast. The original inhabitants braved a 2000-feet-high and terrifyingly steep incline, a severe climate and scarce resources to eke out a living from the seams of coal on the Hill. Their unique lifestyle has been brought alive in DENNISTON ROSE and HEART OF COAL. It has also been documented in the rich collections of historic photographs and artefacts of the place and its people, collected here to illustrate these two moving and vivid novels. They take us from the 1880s, as the young Rose struggles to find a place for herself amongst the tough, makeshift community on the high plateau, and through into the nineteenth century, as Rose blossoms into adulthood and is torn between her love affairs with two men and the bleak landscape of Denniston. In this illustrated novel the raw truth of the photographic past illuminates the reader's own imagination. In addition images of past times are paired with those of today to highlight the change from crowded settlements to ghost town. ...Show more

Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women's Poetry by Paula Green

$45.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine

New Zealand women have published poetry for over 150 years. In this landmark book, poet and anthologist Paula Green celebrates and makes connections between 201 of them, from emerging poets and those who are household names to those who have slipped from public view or were not paid the honour they were due in their lifetimes.  Wide-ranging, engaging and affecting, Wild Honey celebrates the many ways in which poems by women deserve a place in the literary canon of Aotearoa. Charming and unique, the book’s chapters follow the structure of a house, with different poets being discussed and assessed in each of the house’s rooms.  The selection is enormously generous, the tone is at times gentle and accessible, and Green’s reach is wide. She brings the pioneers of women’s poetry — Jessie Mackay, Blanche Baughan and Eileen Duggan — back from the shadows, and she also draws our attention to the remarkable stories of forgotten women poets such as Lola Ridge. ...Show more

Mihi and the Last of the Moas

$47.50 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

The Calling by Fleur Beale

$19.99 NZD

Category: Contemporary Fiction

A novel about finding your calling, the extraordinary nun Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, and the realities of religious bigotry in late-nineteenth century New Zealand. 'Dreams were dangerous things.' It was the dream of Molly's dying mother that she would become a nun. It isn't, however, the dream of her Methodist father, who wants her to marry. But what is her true calling and how can she follow it? As the 19th century draws to an end, Molly searches out the extraordinary nun Mother Mary Joseph Aubert to find out. 'One of the most consistently accomplished and versatile writers for teenagers in the country' - The New Zealand Listener ...Show more

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Caxton Press) by Oscar Wilde

$185.00 NZD

Category: World Poetry

The Stand by Stephen King

$15.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy

The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden. When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity wi thin a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them--and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. ...Show more

Selected Poems of Tennyson

$65.00 NZD

Category: World Poetry

Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists by R. Dodsley

$125.00 NZD

Category: Classic Fiction

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

$175.00 NZD

Category: World Poetry

The Fisherman and His Wife by Brothers Grimm

$125.00 NZD

Category: Classic Fiction

The Victory Hymn 1935-1995 by Robin Hyde; Michele Leggott

$175.00 NZD

Category: NZ Poetry

Classic Crump by Barry Crump

$27.50 NZD

Category: NZ Literature

Three of the best-loved Barry Crump books - A Good Keen Man, Hang On a Minute Mate and Crocodile Country now available in one beautiful volume.