Cocktails with Molotov and Tea with Mr. Lee
Bernard Brown lived through WWII in Suffolk, England, where he was strafed by bullets from a German Dornier aeroplane; dived to fetch sculpturing clay for a young Lucian Freud; went to school with the notorious gangsters, the Kray brothers; and had a close encounter with the Jimmy Savile of the era, 'Uncle Mac' at the BBC. As a young man,...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Big Smoke
The pursuit of city life is one of the most important untold stories of New Zealand. The Big Smoke is the first comprehensive history to tell this story, presenting a dynamic and highly illustrated account of city life from 1840 to 1920. It explores such questions as: what did cities look like and how did they change; why were women...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
An Indigenous Ocean
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and the complex relationship between New Zealand and the Pacific, Salesa's work offers a nuanced and insightful...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
A Message for Nasty
Marie Broom and her husband Vincent enjoy a pleasant life on Hong Kong Island. Vincent is a New Zealander. Marie is Portuguese-Chinese. Married for ten years, the couple have four adored children – daughters aged 9, 8 and 5, and a baby son of 14 months. Vincent’s job as a marine engineer often takes him overseas. It is December 8,...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
A History Of Queen's Redoubt & The Invasion Of The Waikato
On 12 July 1863, British and colonial troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Duncan Cameron crossed the Mangatawhiri stream, Waikato Maori's northern border, instigating the Waikato War. In order to do so, they had amassed a vast infrastructure that included building the Great South Road (the 'Road to War'), establishing a military supply train capable of providing for the...Hardback$4995Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Encounters Across Time
Foreword by Damon Salesa. Story telling is an art deep within human nature. A timely collection of writings on history, from one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most distinguished scholars. These essays bring forth important questions for New Zealand history about autonomy, restoration and power that continue to reverberate today. They also serve as a pathway into the rigorous and imaginative...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Haerenga: Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe
Haerenga: Early Maori Journeys Across the Globe by Vincent O'Malley offers a fascinating glimpse into the first encounters between Maori and Europeans, not only along New Zealand's shorelines but also in far-flung cities such as Melbourne, Liverpool, and New York. From the late eighteenth century, Maori travellers ventured from New Zealand to explore the world. Their journeys were prompted by...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Fragments from a Contested Past
What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities. History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across the globe, nations have begun to debate who, how, and...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week-
Privilege in Perpetuity
'The idea of Māori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Māori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Māori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealanders hold firm to the belief that Māori have been treated better than other...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
The First Migration
Thousands of years ago, migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Derived from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, this text weaves together evidence from numerous sources: oral...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Introducing He Whakaputanga
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga, made after decades of Māori...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$2000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Te Hau Kāinga
Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where Māori lived, worked and raised their families, Te Hau Kāinga tells the story of the profound transformation in Māori life during the Second World War. While the Māori Battalion fought overseas, the Māori War Effort Organisation and its tribal committees engaged Māori men and women throughout Aotearoa in...Hardback$16500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Treaty of Waitangi
The story of The Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi is one of the greatest in New Zealand history. It marks the moment British and Māori history intersected and a new nation was formed. In The Treaty of Waitangi, Ross Calman outlines the impact of the Treaty from early contact between Māori and European settlers and signing around the country...Paperback$6400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Wake of the Invercauld
This is the story of Robert Holding, a young English adventurer who was only 23 when he was shipwrecked with 19 others on the Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean in 1864. A year later he was rescued, along with only two of his shipmates. The others had perished from starvation and exposure. It was when Madelene Fergusson Allen was...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Trial of Strength
The world’s subantarctic islands circle the lower part of the globe below New Zealand, Australia, Africa, and South America in the ‘Roaring Forties’ and ‘Furious Fifties’ latitudes. They are filled with unique plants and wildlife, constantly buffeted by lashing rain and furious gales, and surrounded by a vast, powerful ocean. New Zealand and Australian subantarctic islands in particular have a...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Today in New Zealand History
Dates matter, and they are often a starting point for our engagement with history. For most New Zealanders, days like 6 February or 25 April are laden with significance. They are recognised as markers of important moments in our past; they inspire pride, connection, reflection, or perhaps controversy. Some dates hold a sombre or sinister place in the nation’s collective...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Blind Strategist
From the acclaimed author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes an in-depth, critical evaluation of the manoeuvre warfare revolution that has transformed the American military. Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot, revolutionised the American art of war through his ideas on conflict and the human mind. Boyd claimed that victory is won by the side which...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Blind Strategist
From the acclaimed author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes an in-depth, critical evaluation of the manoeuvre warfare revolution that has transformed the American military. Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot, revolutionised the American art of war through his ideas on conflict and the human mind. Boyd claimed that victory is won by the side that...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
New Zealand’s Worst Disasters
A full train plunges into a raging river at Tangiwai; the Wahine is tossed onto rocks at the entrance to Wellington Harbour; an Air New Zealand DC-10 plunges into Mt Erebus; an earthquake destroys Christchurch … disasters like these are known to all New Zealanders: they are part of our history. But New Zealand has experienced many less well-known disasters,...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
New Zealand’s First World War Heritage
Rediscover New Zealand’s hidden First World War history through the places where it happened. No battles were fought here, yet the First World War intruded into the daily life of every New Zealander who remained at home. This ground-breaking book provides vivid new insights into their experiences through exploring the places where they lived, worked, coped and mourned: army camps,...Hardback$5900Elsewhere:$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Guiding Lights
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes true stories from around the world, chronicling the lives of the extraordinary women who mind the world’s storm-battered towers. From Hannah Sutton and her partner Grant, the two caretakers...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Gallipoli
In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock and achieve a decisive victory. The ‘August offensive’ resulted in heartbreaking failure and costly losses on both sides. Many of the sites of the bloody struggle became famous names: Lone...Paperback$4100Elsewhere:$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
False Flags
False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940, the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and Kormoran left Germany and waged a ‘pirate war’ in the South Seas — part of Germany’s strategy to attack the British Empire’s maritime trade on a global scale. Their...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
False Flags
Now available in paperback, False Flags tells the epic story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940, the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin and Kormoran left Germany and waged a ‘pirate war’ in the South Seas — part of Germany’s strategy to attack the British Empire’s maritime trade on a...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Eight Hundred Heroes
Acclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand. Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of the world’s greatest cities after almost three months of brutal urban warfare, the Chinese Army begins to retreat – except for a single battalion that stays behind to fight. These soldiers, led by Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan, known...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Panzer Commander Hermann Balck
During World War II, Balck commanded panzer troops from the front line and led by example, putting himself in extreme danger when rallying his soldiers to surge forward. He fought battles that were masterpieces of tactical operations, utilizing speed, surprise and a remarkable ability to motivate his men to achieve what they considered to be impossible. We follow his journey...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Nothing Significant To Report
Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight, kill, and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving high school the year before, he had been on a steady diet of spliffs, Speights, and the...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Godley
A comprehensive biography of General Sir Alexander Godley, presenting for the first time a fair and balanced look at his time as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and II ANZAC Corps during World War I. While Godley is generally remembered as being a poor field commander, Terry Kinloch argues that he was, in fact, a capable one...Hardback$5400Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Becoming Pakeha
A journey between two cultures After more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pākehā and Māori worlds grow ever more separate. The Aotearoa of today is a landscape of two predominant cultures, overlaid with so...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsored 'national fitness' programmes swept Britain and its former colonies. Following revelations of the Nazi enthusiasm for government-backed sports and the organisation of mass leisure, the programmes quickly foundered. They probably laid, however, the foundations for the twentieth century's obsession with fitness— a key facet of modern life. In this...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week 
Healing Our History 3rd Edition
Healing Our History 3rd Edition delves into The Treaty of Waitangi, the most important document in New Zealand's history. Understanding current Treaty issues and Maori/Pakeha relationships requires consideration within the broader narrative of New Zealand. As we comprehend and honour our history, we acknowledge the necessity for restoration, healing, and fostering right relationships. The public's response to previous editions of...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Weed
A fascinating journey through the life and times of cannabis in New Zealand. 'I just closed my eyes and drifted away. I drifted away to the music but I don't think I'd ever experienced anything quite so soothing and magical. It was like I was in a magical space. It was beautiful.'- Jim Mahoney, former drug user Pot, Mary Jane,...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Kiwis in Conflict
Kiwis in Conflict is the story of New Zealand and New Zealanders at war from the mid-19th century to the present day. Originally published as Scars of the Heart, this new revised and updated edition examines the impact of war through the eyes of those involved, using photographs, paintings, letters, and diaries to give a glimpse of what these wars...Paperback$5400Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Eyes of Fire: the Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior
Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior by David Robie is a compelling narrative that delves into a poignant moment in history and its lasting repercussions. Set against the backdrop of Pacific activism, the book meticulously chronicles the ill-fated journey of the Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, in a vividly detailed account that captures the tension and...Paperback$9100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Introducing Te Tiriti O Waitangi
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, moko or marks, they were making an agreement with the British...Paperback$1700Elsewhere:$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Nga Iwi O Tainui
Nga Iwi o Tainui is a classic work of New Zealand and Maori history, first published in 1995. This bilingual collection, composed of 67 chapters, details the histories, genealogies, songs, and chants of the Tainui people. It marks the culmination of a life's work by the scholar and historian Dr Pei Te Hurinui Jones. The beautiful Maori text is complemented...PaperbackSold Out-
Tangata Whenua a History
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past, from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History. The full text of the big hardback is now available in a reader-friendly edition, ideal for students, for bedtime...PaperbackSold Out 
Nga Atua
A book to treasure for young and old, Robyn Kahukiwa's Nga Atua - Maori Gods takes the reader on a stunning visual journey while imparting simple and effective explanations of the major Maori gods. Robyn introduces the pantheon of Maori deities and explains the arena of life for which each one is responsible. For example: Tumatauenga is the greatest warrior....PaperbackSold Out
Remnant - Staveley Camp Forest
Remnant - Staveley Camp Forest tells the story of how a tiny native forest survives on Sawmill Road, Staveley, through the eyes of nine people. Their stories interweave nature, personal recollections of the church camp, local history, and thoughts on the changing value we give to natural areas. It’s a compelling insight into why this remnant forest persists: a coming...PaperbackSold Out
Living by the Moon
The dependence of Te Whanau-a-Apanui ancestors on the environment led them to closely study the changes and cycles in nature so they could ensure their survival in their tribal area. Knowledge of aspects such as the sea conditions and best planting and harvesting times at each day of the month were carefully observed and remembered, and community activities were arranged...PaperbackSold Out
Riding Through Life
Born during the hardships of the 1930s Depression, Neville Wooderson belonged to a generation shaped by resilience, discipline, and action. From working in milking sheds as a boy to racing at the legendary Isle of Man in 1953, he pursued his love of motorcycles with grit and precision. But racing was only part of the story. A respected craftsman plumber...PaperbackSold Out-
The Treaty of Waitangi: Covenants and Consequences
Around the time of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the missionaries struggled to fully accept Māori because their culture didn’t align with the strict rules of the Mosaic Law – especially the Ten Commandments. If the missionaries had truly understood the finished work of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the New Covenant, they would have ministered God’s...PaperbackSold Out 
Wired for Sound
For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwriters, engineers, and producers who have graced Stebbing's famous three recording studios. Come inside the mid-1960s Galaxie nightclub, the evolution of the Zodiac record label, and the Stebbing family's fearless response to industry politics, changing technologies, and financial...HardbackSold Out-
Taua
When the Māori tribes obtained muskets in the early 1820s, the inter-tribal warfare which broke out resulted in major massacres and thousands of deaths. The Ngā Puhi tribe of the far north, under the legendary Hongi Hika, swept away all before it, conquering tribes as far south as the Bay of Plenty. The "musket wars" rewrote the Māori landscape, changing...PaperbackSold Out 
Nga Puriri o Taiamai
Much sought after since its original publication, Nga Puriri o Taiamai furnishes an essential history of New Zealand's most populous iwi. Nga Puriri o Taiamai was first published by the Polynesian Society in 1987 as The Puriri Trees are Laughing. A record of the political history of Nga Puhi tribal groups in the Taiamai and Te Waimate regions of the...PaperbackSold Out
Huia Histories of M?ori
This comprehensive history of Aotearoa New Zealand, written entirely from Māori viewpoints using Māori customary structures, takes a fresh look at what Māori history is and how it differs from that formerly portrayed. As a postcolonial history, it provides a range of fresh views on past events. Written by sixteen Māori scholars, including two Knights of the Realm, all specialists...PaperbackSold Out
Te Arawa: a History of the Te Arawa People
Published in 1967, Te Arawa was the major work by distinguished Rotorua historian, the late Don Stafford. This sumptuous new edition reproduces the complete history of the Arawa people from the arrival of the Te Arawa canoe until the late nineteenth century, and includes a new foreword by Professor Paul Tapsell.HardbackSold Out
Poutini
Māori have lived on Te Tai Poutini for at least as long as anywhere else on these islands called New Zealand, bound by ancient stories and a unique affinity to pounamu. So why is the Māori story so impoverished in a region so rich in storytelling? - Paul Madgwick, from the Introduction. Poutini aims to correct this by recording the...HardbackSold Out
Horouta
Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretch from East Cape to northern Hawke's Bay. Assembled through painstaking historical and genealogical research over more than 70 years by Rongowhakaata Halbert and his family, the book includes extensive chapters based on oral and written history...HardbackSold Out
Reconnect: Tokelau Tā Tatau
Reconnect: Tokelau Tā Tatau is a non-fiction work by Jack Karifi, published by Mila’s Books. This engaging title brings to life Pasifika stories, histories, and perspectives, specifically crafted for young readers and schools.PaperbackSold Out
Losi the Giant Fisherman
Losi the Giant Fisherman tells the tale of Losi the Giant, the greatest fisherman across all the moana. A mischievous and loyal friend to sea creatures and all humans, Losi will always be remembered as the hero who brought taro, the food of the Gods, to Earth.PaperbackSold Out
Ko e pongipongi fo'ou
Ko e pongipongi fo'ou is the Tongan version of A New Dawn Story. In this book, Emeli Sione shares her Dawn Raid story to help us understand the real impact of this dark time in our history. With valuable lessons for all New Zealanders, A New Dawn provides us with hope on our journeys of equality, justice, and healing as...PaperbackSold Out
Grandpa's Siapo
Grandpa and Luka share the same birthday and today they get to celebrate it with the whole 'aiga. Grandpa is also a storyteller and surprises his grandchildren with a Samoan Siapo that tells a very special story about Samoa's journey to independence. Grandpa's Siapo is the only picture story book in the world that introduces readers to historical events in...PaperbackSold Out
A New Dawn
Emeli Sione shares her Dawn Raid story to help us understand the real impact of this dark time in our history. With valuable lessons for all New Zealanders, A New Dawn provides us with hope on our journeys of equality, justice and healing as Pasifika in New Zealand.PaperbackSold Out-
Ngāti Kuia
Ngāti Kuia are tangata whenua of Te Tauihu-o-Te-Waka-a-Māui (the northern South Island). Descended from the ancestress Kuia, their whakapapa sits within a rich and complex Māori lineage, connecting with the stories held by neighbouring iwi – particularly the other Kurahaupō waka groups. Their networks also stretch towards the head of the country, linking to iwi originating from the East Coast...HardbackSold Out -
The Life That I Lived in Communist Georgia
NUGZAR "NICK" ZHORZHOLIANI was born and raised in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a part of the USSR until its dissolution in December 1991, when Georgia became an independent nation. Throughout his youth, the KGB tried to recruit him, starting in 1977 when he was seventeen years old. Nick's private teacher, for instance, an undercover KGB agent provocateur, indoctrinated and...PaperbackSold Out 
Gallipoli
The definitive account of New Zealand's role in the disastrous 1915 Gallipoli campaign, when a British-led expeditionary force met the Turkish army in an attempt to wrest control of the Dardanelles, comes alive in an updated edition, well illustrated and brilliantly analysed by the doyen of Kiwi military historians. In the fifth edition of this classic work we see Gallipoli...PaperbackSold Out
Arthur McKee: Pioneer, Entrepreneur, Man of Vision
Arthur McKee, born to a poor Irish family, who moved to Liverpool after the Irish potato famine of the late 1840s. His mother was illiterate, signing the death certificates of 4 of her 9 children with a “X”. His father was a shoemaker/journeyman. Join Arthur McKee as he escapes the grim poverty that he writes about, taking his sick brother on...PaperbackSold Out
Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand's Colonial Pasts
Breaking open colonisation to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into our colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Māori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing; empire building becomes a spreading web of connected places, people, ideas and trade. These links question narrow, national stories, while broadening perspectives on the past and the...PaperbackSold Out
True To Ireland
In the 1930s, a number of Irishmen came to New Zealand seeking a better life. Many carried bitter memories of the atrocities committed by the Black and Tans and the British during WWI and the early 1920s. With the onset of WWII came the threat of conscription into the armed forces. As citizens of a neutral country, many Irishmen refused...PaperbackSold Out-
Time to Make a Song and Dance: Cultural Revolt in Auckland in the 1960s
The 1960s was a period of radical conflict, when the desire for a new, socially defiant freedom affected every aspect of NZ culture: theatre, the visual arts, Māori activism, rock ‘n roll, literature, feminism, NZ film, direct action, culminating in a series of bombings that rocked Auckland at the end of the decade. Featuring figures such as Janet Frame, Tim...PaperbackSold Out 
The Treaty of Waitangi | Te Tiriti o Waitangi
Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty has contributed to New Zealanders' understanding of this history for over thirty years. In this new edition of her popular illustrated history, Dr Orange brings the narrative of Te Tiriti/Treaty up to date, covering major developments in iwi claims and Treaty settlements, including the 'personhood' established for the Whanganui River and Te Urewera, applications...PaperbackSold Out
Te Ao Tawhito
Te Ao Tawhito: The Old World contemplates Maori origins in the 'blue continent', the vast Pacific Ocean across which the earliest ancestors travelled to settle these southernmost Pacific islands. Here they organised into hapu and iwi, adapting tropical ways to life in a huge but temperate land, building communities and developing cultures. Early European visitors observed Maori society and changed...PaperbackSold Out
Shared Histories
Across the motu there are places that remind those who stop there of the bloody battles between Māori iwi and the Crown, known as the New Zealand Wars. Many don’t know where these places are; most don’t stop. In 2021, Palmerston North poet and artist John Tāne Christeller decided to visit these sites and record what he saw. From his...PaperbackSold Out
New Zealand and the Sea
As a group of islands in the far south-west Pacific Ocean, New Zealand has a history that is steeped in the sea. Its people have encountered the sea in many different ways: along the coast, in port, on ships, beneath the waves, behind a camera, and in the realm of the imagination. While New Zealanders have continually altered their marine...PaperbackSold Out-
Isaac Featherston - 'Petatone'
Isaac Featherston was at the heart of some of the most significant developments in New Zealand from the 1840s colonisation by the New Zealand Company to the abolition of the provinces in 1876. Doctor, newspaper editor and politician, he advocated for the provinces against the domination of central government, while also being primarily responsible for the relocation of the capital...PaperbackSold Out 
Astride a Fierce Wind
Astride a Fierce Wind is a story of the life of an immigrant and what it means to leave one home behind and cross the world to find another. But it is also the story of a life of a woman who faces huge difficulties and yet chooses instead to see beauty and strength and freedom and love. Huberta Hellendoorn's...PaperbackSold Out-
Ko Taranaki Te Maunga
Parihaka was a place and an event that could be lost and found, over and over. It moved into view, then disappeared, just like the mountain. In 1881, over 1,500 colonial troops invaded the village of Parihaka near the Taranaki coast. Many people were expelled, buildings destroyed, and chiefs Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi were jailed. In this...PaperbackSold Out -
Kainga
Dare we elevate kainga as a way of achieving regionalised ecological accountability, and in the process can we bring humanity back into balance with the universe? Through his own experience and the stories of his tipuna, Paul Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) charts the impact of colonisation on his people. Alienation from kainga and whenua becomes a wider story of environmental...PaperbackSold Out -
Treaty of Waitangi
Treaty of Waitangi by Ross Calman offers a short, balanced introduction to the nation's founding document. Using plain language, it covers the events surrounding the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, while also examining what has transpired since. The book provides information on the key personalities involved and includes a wealth of illustrations. Additionally, readers will find the full text...PaperbackSold Out
Under a Bomber's Moon
They were the best of enemies - dedicated, skilled, and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany, an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each other's paths. The odds are heavily against either of them making it through the war,...PaperbackSold Out
Key Questions in Personal History
Our individual memories define us. Our tribal memories unite us. Emotional Inheritance works with psychologists, writers, and historians to provide a premium interview and life story production service. Now, this boxed set of 100 cards provides simple, effective questions to help you undertake this process yourself, without an external interviewer. Questions are grouped into categories such as ‘Early Childhood’, ‘Adulthood’,...CardsSold Out
Johnny Enzed
The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation’s history. Over 100,000 men and women would embark for overseas service, and almost 60,000 of them became casualties. For a small nation like New Zealand, this was a tragedy on an unimagined scale. Using their...Leather / fine bindingSold Out-
Caging Skies
Caging Skies is a gripping, atmospheric novel about obsession and love. Inspiring a major film, this compelling story examines truth and lies, laying bare our darkest impulses. "I was sure I heard steps up and down the hall in the middle of the night." Johannes is an avid member of the Hitler Youth. As the war rages on, he discovers...PaperbackSold Out 
Captured By Maori: White female Captives, Sex & Racism On The NineteenthCentury New Zealand frontier
The collision of Maori and Pakeha cultures in the nineteenth century has produced some of our greatest stories, among them the capture by Maori of white women such as Elizabeth Guard, Ann Morley, and Caroline Perrett. This book tells of the often terrifying encounters endured by these women and six others for much longer. Two actually chose to remain in...PaperbackSold Out
Bligh
In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West. Award-winning anthropologist Anne Salmond recounts the triumphs and disasters of William Bligh's life and career in a riveting narrative that for the first time portrays the Pacific...PaperbackSold Out
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