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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth by Henry Gee
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times' 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changin ...Show more
Access Road by Maurice Gee
37.00 NZD
38.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealan ...Show more
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Blindsight is the story of a good though damaged man and his less than virtuous sister. As their childhood closeness unravels, Alice moves into her career in science (she's a mycologist), while Gordon descents into vagrancy and silence. For more than thirty years they do not meet. Then a young man appea ...Show more
Coming Home by Sue Gee
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives there - as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army - will be returning to England. Among those coming home, as everyone speaks of it, are Will and Fl ...Show more
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: BWB Texts
When someone says the word 'kitchen' I get an instant flash of that room, with its black stove and drying rack, its brown lino, its worn mat and wooden table, the Philco radio on the mantelpiece. And 'creek' works in a similar way. These are things that can start me writing.... Widely regarded as one of ...Show more
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
Chance is born four years from now, in a London close to home - where social divides are deepening, and climate change is playing its hand. Chance, her mother and brother are moved from cramped hotel room to cramped hotel room in emergency accommodation. Until a right-wing foundation funding ‘ ...Show more
Frida Kahlo (Little People Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Eng Gee Fan
23.00 NZD
Category: Little People, Big Dreams | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Frida Kahlo, the world-renowned painter.When Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...Show more
Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
12.00 NZD
29.00 (58% off)
Category: General fiction
One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a reques ...Show more
Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'As comforting, warm and delicious as a slice of freshly-baked friendship bread.' - Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of Promises to Keep 'Deliciously entertaining! You'll cheer all the way as these characters stumble toward forgiveness, understanding, and, ultimately, celebration ...a treat ...Show more
Gool by Maurice Gee
20.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Salt Trilogy 2
Gool is the sequel to Salt. Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies dangerously ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining hi ...Show more
Journeys: Words of Wisdom by GEE
15.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Words of Wisdom Ser.
Gift book collection of travel quotations from Australian celebrities such as Tim Fischer and Andrew Denton, and international writers and adventurers such as Graham Greene and Brigitte Muir. One of the Words of Wisdom series.
Magnolia Kitchen Design by Bernadette Gee
50.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink
After the huge worldwide success of her first book, Magnolia Kitchen, Bets Gee brings us the spectacular Magnolia Kitchen Design focusing on the design elements of her incredible cakes.