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Bob Calkin was born in 1935 and grew up as Aotearoa New Zealand was entering a period of unprecedented stability and boom times. Tales from the Lucky Generation follows Bobs rise from humble roots in working-class Whanganui to the world of law and business before a spectacular fall from grace landed him with a six-year prison sentence.

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In a reversal of the usual Tuscan Dream, a small Italian family of parents, daughter and dog, moved to New Zealand in 1996. They met adventures and natural disasters, observed animals and nature, while establishing a vineyard and doing many more things. The book also tells of their life in Italy and Japan, and holidays around the world.

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Activist, creative entrepreneur and counsellor Robin Woodsford is a Baby Boomer and in this moving reflection on his life and times he discovers that his personal story is also a universal one. More, he says the job's not done yet.

(Hardback)

Laurence Catlow is considered one of the finest classical flyfishing writers of our times and here he explores the themes close to an anglers heart: early and late season fishing; mayflies; lost fish; fishing in Wales; in Scotland; on home waters; what fishing really means to an angler.

(Paperback)

Memoir of Dorothy Buchanan, one of New Zealands most prominent composers a force in music and music-making in Aotearoa for over half a century.

(Hardback)

The Book Collector is an enjoyable and thoroughly engaging read, packed full of stories, personal observations, useful information and splashes of humour, inviting the reader to further explore what our often neglected New Zealand literature has to offer.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

A compelling insight into one Far East ex POW survivor's mental health and terrible suffering, long after he returned home to his loving family resulting in domestic abuse observed through the eyes of a child.

(Paperback)

After fleeing Hitler, Lidi gets a letter about " all those relations, just perished." She burns it hoping her trauma would disappear, but age 92, regrets burning it. Too late. "They", remain Helene's mystery. For 50 years, she searches the world. Helene also unearths hidden parts of her mother and her self.

(Paperback)

The Raurimu Massacre took place on 8 February 1997, at Raurimu Lodge. Six people died, including Steve's own father. In Steve's own words, learn what went wrong, how he made his recovery, and now leads a meaningful life post detention in forensic mental health units, and committing one of New Zealand's worse mass shootings.

(Paperback)

Emma Gilkison is thrilled to be pregnant. But during a routine twelve-week ultrasound she learns that the baby's heart is growing outside his body an extremely rare and usually fatal condition. This is an extraordinary story about a young couple forced to go beyond their everyday experience and confront head-on issues of life and death.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginnings are born of brokenness. The angelically beautiful but fragile paper nautilus provides a vivid image of this interplay of death and rebirth.

(Paperback)

Here is the inside story of all those colourful escapades and Linn's adventures in the Big Apple in the '70s and early '80s, from downtown $20-a-night gigs to uptown's swanky ivories, with stops along the way for marriage, divorce and a baby. The Redhead Gets the Gig is a rollicking yarn - with a heart.

(Hardback)

Michael Clayton was a journalist on Fleet Street - but the highlight of his career was his editorship in the field of horses, especially hunting horses. Here he talks frankly about the Royal family and their horses, his roving hunting brief, racehorse reporting, and all the key characters of the equine world whom he got to know first-hand.

(Paperback)

A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the story of how she became one of New Zealand's youngest parliamentarians, how motherhood intervened, and how she found solace and solidarity in the writings of women.

(Paperback)

Twenty-three-year-old Josh Komen is on track to represent New Zealand in running at the next Commonwealth Games when he is diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. In a single moment, the course of his life has changed irrevocably.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The life of a rural woman in the Bay of Plenty in the first half of the twentieth century.Powerful observations written with humour of rural communities.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Catharina van Bohemen walked the Camino de Santiago in 1998. Her journal was the most important thing she carried.

(Paperback)

Welcome to 'Town', fifty stories and fifty images by writer and photographer Madeleine Slavick, who lived in Hong Kong for almost twenty-five years before moving to a Wairarapa country road that runs from state highway to bush.

(Paperback, New edition)

H.W. Tilmans Two Mountains and a River sees him trek across Nepal, China, Pakistan and other areas of Asia, including Ishkashim, where the author was arrested on suspicion of being a spy ...