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9781869508418
Common Table : The True Story of Two Women, Two Kitchens, Two Changing Lives
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Author:
Janice Marriott & Virginia Pawsey
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A warm, welcoming feast of a book celebrating food and the power of sustaining friendship.
Two Gisborne schoolgirls go their separate ways after high school, meeting again many years later at a reunion, where their friendship is renewed through a shared love of gardening, as they begin writing to each other with humour, compassion and joy.
In their first book,
Common Ground
, Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey wrote about their very different gardens and lives.
In this, their eagerly awaited second book, their wonderful, wise, witty and utterly human letters trace a seasonal journey through their very different kitchens - one in a small inner-city cottage, the other a rambling country kitchen on a busy working hill country farm.
Their friendship provides sustenance on many levels, as their skilful and complementary cooking and writing styles encompass details of everyday life that are both engaging and ...
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Up the Andes
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Jo Morgan
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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 ...
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9780986457111
Trade Me : The Inside Story
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Michael 'MOD' O'Donnell
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Few companies have captured the hearts and minds of New Zealanders like Trade Me. Originally built on a borrowed laptop by university drop-out Sam Morgan, Trade Me has changed the face of retailing in New Zealand. Destroying newspapers' classifieds businesses, car and property dealers, and partnering with select websites and companies, the company then went on to be sold for a staggering $750 million to Fairfax. Trade Me has become part of our local vernacular and also the number one force on the New Zealand internet with some 2.5 million Kiwis listed as members.
First published July 2010.
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9781869792947
Bird on a Wire : The Inside Story From A Straight Talking CEO
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Author:
Theresa Gattung
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No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at such a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate was never far from the headlines. This no-holds-barred memoir tells of her ambition, her determination, and her rise to business power. It tells of the highs of running a vitally important company such as Telecom and also the lows, as the company struggled with the Australian AAPT acquisition, shareholder pressure, antagonism from the government, battles with its telco competitors and changing technology. After seven years she felt she'd given her all. The personal toll of those tough years at the top had been significant and Gattung is frank about how she had to rebuild her life with a clear focus. First with her chic Californian fashion store showcasing New Zealand fashion, and now with her ...
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9780958283960
A Life In Sport
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Brendan Telfer
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Telfer, one of New Zealand's best known sports broadcasters, has worked for TVNZ since 1974.
In this book he covers many controversial topics and provides a personal account of working in the field.
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9780476011564
A Time For Courage
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9781847376749
Hello Dubai : Skiing,Sand & Shopping in the World's Weirdest City
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Joe Bennett
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Boom town, modern marvel, commercial hub, where middle-east meets wealthy west, playground for tourists, crawling with ex-pats, built by Indians, owned by Arabs, Dubai has risen from next to nothing to an awful lot in little more than thirty years. How? And can it go on? Has it sold itself to the corporate dollar? Is it anything more than a mall in the desert? Will the sands return? Joe Bennett goes to find out.
First published June 2010.
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9781877505034
Kiwi Heroes : 50 courageous New Zealanders
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Author:
Bronwyn Sell & Winston Aldworth
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Kiwi Heroes brings together the tales of 50 of New Zealand's bravest people. Some of the people featured are household names - some are barely known outside their own households. Some have become heroes in a moment, some over a lifetime. Some are professionals who have gone beyond the call of duty; others are ordinary people who have been plunged into terrifying circumstances and responded with astonishing bravery. Many have forfeited their lives or their livelihoods for the sake of others. All have great stories to tell.
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9781869793913
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Rebel With A Cause : New Zealander of the year
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Ray Avery
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Ray Avery is an amazing person. He is the current New Zealander of the Year because of his clever work in the third world using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations, cheap and more effective incubators for babies and other creative scientific solutions. His childhood was very 'Angela's Ashes' - brought up in an orphanage (his own mother had tried to sell him), then ran away and lived on the streets. But Ray went on to become a scientist, a millionaire, very successful businessman and now someone who literally does help to change the world. During the mid-nineties Ray spent most of his time working in Eritrea and Nepal setting up two world class Intraocular lens laboratories. At that time the cost of an Intraocular lenses was about US$300 but Ray managed to put the technology together to produce lenses for under US$10.00 making modern Cataract surgery accessible to the poor throughout Africa and ...
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9781869508104
The World's Your Lobster : More blah blah blah
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author:
Joe Bennett
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One of New Zealand's most widely read and popular syndicated columnists, both in newspapers and magazines, Joe Bennett's erudite and wryly amusing commentaries on the foibles and eccentricities of modern life qualify him as one of our best-loved grouches. He finds much to complain about, much to condemn and, occasionally and always entertainingly, something to praise - which usually involves a dog or two. His annual collections of the best of these columns have steadily built a dedicated readership, and this year's offering is equally flavoursome, as his writing continues to mature and ripen, like his beloved red wine. We've bottled the best of 2009 and are happy to report it will be another vintage year for those who love his crisp, clever, dry and always clever takes on life in these modern times of ours, that never waste a single word. One for the fans that is sure to also win him new ones.
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9781869793302
A Life On Gorge River : New Zealand's remotest family
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Robert Long
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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.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869793067
A Long Road to Progress: Dispatches from a Kiwi commander if Afghanistan
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Richard Hall
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As Commander of the New Zealand troops in the Bamiyan Province of Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Hall gained a unique insight into the lives of Kiwi soldiers serving in a harsh climate amid daily threats, as well as into the lives of the locals - from the female governor trying to establish order in a patriarchal society, to the farmer scratching a living from an inhospitable land, to the orphaned girls destined to be sold into marriage at a young age. He vividly and movingly recalls his experiences, but also explains the vision he tried to implement there on behalf of this country. He tackles the complex issues involved in an army that seeks to bring both aid and a Western way of doing things in a deeply Islamic country. He offers an astute perspective on working with New Zealand troops, American soldiers, corrupt Afghani officials, intransigent aid organisations, while tackling crippling poverty, insurgents attacks, impossible terrain ...
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9781877517051
Backroads : Charting a Poet's life
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Author:
Sam Hunt
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Sam Hunt's life as a poet and performer has always strayed far off the straight and narrow, more akin to following a series of winding backroads that have led to places and people away from the mainstream. As a child, Hunt was surrounded by 'a lot of words, a lot of poems,' and from the age of eight, he knew he wanted to live the life of a poet. His parents and grandparents were his earliest influences, and later it was the likes of W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda and Dylan Thomas; while within New Zealand, Alistair Campbell, James K. Baxter and Denis Glover, among others, inspired and nurtured him. Backroads is a memoir, a series of reflections by Sam Hunt on his life as a poet. He talks about inspiration and its unwelcome antagonist, drying up; the importance of performing, of 'saying poems out loud'; his good friends, like artist Robin White and his faithful canine companion Minstrel; his early publishing ventures and his experiences with ...
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9780143203827
Cannibal Jack
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Author:
Trevor Bentley
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In a frontier society full of colourful characters in early nineteenth century New Zealand, Jacky Marmon, more commonly known as Cannibal Jack, was more colourful than most. Jumping ship off the New Zealand coast, he first lived among Ngapuhi at the Bay of Islands, where he acquired five wives and served his chief as a trader and white priest. Joining Hongi Hika's great Musket Wars campaigns against the Tamaki and Kaipara tribes, he claimed to have served as Hika's personal war tohunga. He survived to settle in the Hokianga from 1823 and was involved in Hone Heke's Flagstaff War of 1845. In this biography of a wonderfully curious character, the author of the bestselling Pakeha Maori traces Marmon's life and times, drawing on his own knowledge and research as well as on Marmon's own - not always reliable - personal accounts.
About the author:
Trevor Bentley was educated at the universities of Auckland and Waikato and has a ...
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9781869711283
Changing Pace : A memoir
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Sir Richard Hadlee
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This memoir recounts the last few years of Sir Richard Hadlee's cricketing career before describing the tumultuous period in his life that followed his retirement. He describes the way in which his life, once so successful and full of high achievement, was suddenly shattered as he experienced a debilitating heart attack that led to major surgery, and shortly afterwards his marriage of twenty-two years disintegrated and came to a painful end. He then describes how, with the help of the woman who was to become his new wife he picked up the pieces and created a new life, first as a cricket ambassador and commentator, and then as the chairman of selectors for New Zealand Cricket. If he had hoped that at that point his life might become smoother sailing he soon found that being a cricket selector brought with it fresh challenges and exposed him to close scrutiny and criticism from the media.
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9781869506803
Common Ground
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Janice Marriott & Virginia Pawsey
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Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey, who went to Gisborne Girls’ High together, met again after thirty years at a school reunion. They rekindled their friendship and began writing, discovering in the process a shared passion for gardening – despite their having created two very different gardens. Janice lives in central Wellington where her riotously colourful mix of flowers, fruit and vegetables surround her tiny house in the midst of the CBD. Virginia helps run a South Island high country farm and her garden has to feed shearers and farm labourers as well as cope with possums, runaway livestock and the challenges of rural life. Their wonderful correspondence tells the stories of their lives, their gardens, their loves and their losses, and is ultimately a book about female friendship, and a love of making things grow. As the seasons unfold, the stories of their gardens become metaphors for life. Beautifully written, their letters ...
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9781877460555
Last Everyday Hero : The Bert Sutcliffe story
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NZ$ 41.00 each
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Author:
Richard Boock
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2
This is a tale of two men: one who became the first hero of New Zealand cricket, and one whose lifelong dream was to write his biography. Bert Sutcliffe, a stout-hearted giant of the post-war cricketing world, never did get to see his long-awaited story hit the press. He died in 2001 aged 77, leaving behind a trail of re-written record books. And what records those were: whether it's the stories about Sutcliffe's brace of centuries for Otago against the MCC in 1947, about his two triple centuries in the Plunket Shield, his heart-wrenching partnership with Blair at Johannesburg, or his heroics at Kolkata during his comeback tour, there were no shortage of highlights. It's not hard to understand Rod Nye's desire to write Sutcliffe's biography. Quite apart from the sheer enormity of Sutcliffe's influence on New Zealand cricket and his massive popularity as a player, a full biography of his life and career had been long overdue. ...
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9781869793319
Loving All of It : Eminent New Zealanders Write About Growing Old
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author:
Gordon McLauchlan (editor)
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The late baby boomers are starting to reflect on ways to grow old well, and these 30 affecting pieces by prominent New Zealanders over the age of 65 serve as extremely strong pieces of autobiography, as inspiration and as meditation. No zimmerframes and retirement homes for this lot. The contributors, who include Elizabeth McRae, Wilson Whineray, Ranginui Walker, Brian Edwards, Merimeri Penfold, Hamish Keith, Elizabeth Smither, Sir Paul Reeves, Barry Brickell, Vincent O'Sullivan and Michel Corballis, continue to make a vital contribution to our nation. Editor Gordon McLauchlan encouraged them to be frank and self revealing. Their essays read like letters for their eventual descendants on how they saw the world and themselves when young, on the issues around growing old, on how they see the future, and on the wisdom they've picked up along the way. It's a compelling, essential collection.
First published June 2010.
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9780143007401
Ned and Katina : A true love story
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Patricia Grace
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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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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869507657
Off the Radar...a man, a plan and a paddock...
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Te Radar
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2
Te Radar has written a series of yarns about his experiences and the characters he has met while living off the land in a small community north of Auckland. This book is a tie-in to the television series 'Off the Radar'.
First published December 2008, Auckland
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