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These boxes sold out within days last time, and once again we have a fantastic selection of new season heirloom tomatoes on offer to our community. You get to enjoy tomatoes only restaurants can order. and at a fantastic price (spotted around town at $23.99 p/kilo) Limited availability, so place

With Chinese, Muslim, Central Thai regional and royal influences, the city has spawned a distinctive cuisine. Fragrant, spicy, sweet and salty - Bangkoks flavours are a revelation. With so much great food on offer you need a culinary guide and happily, weve published one

ISBN: 978-1-877441-58-5 White City is a collection of short stories set mostly in and around Aucklands Albert Park, but even those stories that travel far away from the park seem subtly inhabited by its breezes, colours, shadows and sounds. Brown treats his characters with clear-eyed generosity, but...

ISBN: 978-0-9922453-0-6 100PP This book collects six essays in which the late Tongan intellectual I. Futa Helu considers the traditional poetry of his country. As well as guiding readers through the long and intricate history of Tongan verse, the polymathic Helu offers a series of fascinating asides...

ISBN: 978-0-9922453-2-0 240PP BEHIND THE TATTOOED FACE, A STRANGER STANDS. HE OWNS THE EARTH. HE IS WHITE." Vaughan Rapatahanas first novel is a rollicking road trip through the skinny country where a guerilla war is raging between Indigenous rebels and a Pakeha government controlled by foreign inte...

Foreword by Noam Chomsky. Introduction by Dr Steven Ratuva. ISBN: 978-0-9922453-3-7 258PP Oceania: neocolonialism, nukes and bones is a critical appraisal of the destructive consequences of colonialism and later neocolonialism and how they have reshaped and undermined the very essence of Pacific hum...

ISBN: 978-0-9922453-5-1 140PP Selected and introduced by Jack Ross. Including the poem Instead Of, In Memory by David Howard The Millerton Sequences represent the very best work from the second half of ex-Anglican minister Leicester Kyles writing career: the Millerton period, dating roughly from his...

ISBN: 978-0-9922453-6-8 324PP - 240mm x 160mm To read this selection from Murray Edmonds essays, reviews, interviews and letters is to take a ride through forty years of New Zealands cultural, social and political history. Discussions of esoteric art theories, polemical interventions in literary spa...

ISBN: 978-0-9922453-8-2 444PP - 225mm x 150mm May 2016 With its unusual breadth and depth, this book is the harvest of a lifetime of thinking about the arts and media in New Zealand by someone with a knowledge (says Murray Edmond) that combines industry practice with academic insight in a way that i...

Foreword by Gregory OBrien ISBN: 978-0-9922453-9-9 222PP - 115 colour reproductions - 210mm x 180mm A memoir told in the painters own words, selected from her private journals and letters, Emily Jackson: A Painters Landscape reveals the inner life of a passionate and driven artist as well as giving ...

ISBN: 978-0-9941376-0-9 150PP - 220mm x 145mm Richard von Sturmer is one of New Zealands most versatile artists. He has written hit pop songs, acted in a famous feature film, made his own movies, published acclaimed books of poetry and prose, and lectured and written about Zen Buddhism. In This Expl...

ISBN 978-0-9941376-2-3 326PP - 240mm x 170mm B&W photos by Ian Powell Colour photos by Paul Janman The Great South Road was built in 1862 to carry a British army into the Waikato Kingdom. When the British invaded the Waikato in 1863, soldiers shared the road with Mori refugees from Auckland. Today t...

ISBN 978-0-9941376-1-6 456PP - 240mm x 170mm 140 b&w photographs - 18 colour plates From snow to surf, the Waikato is New Zealands longest river. This fascinating account takes a historical journey along its 425 kilometre length, uncovering extraordinary reports of the people, places and events alon...

18 year old Andy Ingle, with his yellow typewriter called Half-Arse under his arm, embarks on one of the great Kiwi road trips, hitchhiking from Palmerston North to Christchurch, over to the West Coast and back up to Auckland. On the way falling in with drug dealers, a washed-out Professor of Litera...

ISBN 978-0-9951268-5-5 290PP - 205mm x 135mm A dying Hitler dictates his memoirs to a personal aide whilst his top commanders plot against each other to see who will become the next Fuhrer. Meanwhile a small resistance group from England tries to smuggle a package across Europe that will help to sma...

ISBN 978-0-9951268-6-2 360PP - 200mm x 140mm The 1960s was a period of radical conflict, when the desire for a new, socially defiant freedom affected every aspect of culture: theatre, the visual arts, Mori activism, rock n roll, literature, feminism, film, direct action, culminating in a series of b...

ISBN 978-0-9951268-8-6 Jacketed hardback - 332pp 240mm x 170mm - 100 illustrations On 12 July 1863, British and colonial troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Duncan Cameron crossed Mangatwhiri stream, Waikato Moris northern border, instigating the Waikato War. In order to do so they had amassed a va...

ISBN 978-1-99-115911-3 Paperback 270pp - 40 illustrations On the Farm: New Zealands Invisible Women tells the fascinating stories of Kiwi farm women predominantly in their own words, drawing from the vast archive of letters written to New Zealand farming magazines throughout the 20th century. It rev...

ISBN 978-1-99-115919-9 Softcover / 224pp / 128gsm Matt Art paper 16 full page art reproductions in colour Everyone with sight knows the pleasure of colours, the fascination of faces and bodies, the subtle forms of nature, and the curious patterns of art. This book is for everyone who would like to d...

ISBN: 978-1-99-115912-0 Softcover / 512pp Culture in a Small Country provides a remarkably wide-ranging but indepth account of the arts in New Zealand. Combining new perspectives on the past with a unique view of the situation today during the pandemic, this is essential reading for everyone with an...

ISBN: 978-1-99-115913-7 Softcover / 300pp 18 colour photographs Russell Tregonning finished his fifty-year career in medicine as one of New Zealands leading orthopaedic surgeons and as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Otago School of Medicine. This memoir takes the reader through his journey from m...

Softcover - 206mm x 145mm 246pp - 25 b&w illustrations ISBN: 978-1-99-115914-4 In November 1863 at the battle of Rangiriri, over 180 Mori defenders were taken prisoner. They were marched up the Great South Road to thuhu, from where they were transferred onto the Waitemat Harbour. There they were hel...

ISBN: 978-1-99-115916-8 Softcover / 320pp 75 Colour Photographs In 2013 Quinn Hautapu presented to hospital with the seemingly minor symptom of a limp arm, within a short time she was on a Life Flight to Wellington to work out the cause of a massive bleed on the brain. She was seven years old. A mon...