Innovate

Business & Money

Richard Bentley

Economics

Steele Roberts

Sir Francis Renouf: An autobiography

Renouf, Francis

Shape-shifter

Tuwhare, Hone

It's about living and loving in a world where nothing is quite as it appears -- and about the small bright talismans we use to keep the door to chaos closed.

A talent for flight

Fawkes, Glenda

A delicious collection of recipes, peppered generously with delightful anecdotes!  Gisi Hirschfeld draws on her background to record how to make dishes from her European childhood, liberally interspersed with Jewish recipes, blended with favorites of her family and friends in New Zealand.  Much more than just a recipe book, Gisi's Cooking Book will appeal to all the senses.  Gisi's wry wit and gregarious personality spring from the pages of what has been described as "a delectable book to read."

Gisi's Cooking Book

Hirschfeld, Gisi

One of the most distinctive, spine-tingling sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand is the call onto the marae, the karanga. This third instalment of Aunty Mihi's story reveals her understandings of spiritual and cultural matters, especially the rituals of the karanga. Now 84, Aunty Mihi's new book is a rich source of knowledge and insight into treasures of our country. Her first book sold 7000 copies; her second 4000. This is the long-awaited third instalment.

Mihipeka : call of an elder

Mihi Edwards

Biographies & Memoirs

Intimate stranger: Reminiscences of Dan Davin

New Zealanders vividly remember the Wahine wreck, in which 51 people died. An even more tragic shipwreck occurred 60 years earlier, not far from where the Wahine went down. In 1909 the Penguin sank near Wellington with the loss of 72 lives, among them many women and children.Until now the full story of this calamity has never been told - the drama and despair of that wild night in Cook Strait and the acts of fortitude and tenacity that ensued. One heroine was Ada Hannam, the only female survivor, who overcame dreadful odds but lost her entire family.The Penguin has never been found, and mystery surrounds the cause and exact location of the sinking. Was it Thoms Rock, or did the Penguin hit the hulk of the Rio Loge? Was Captain Naylor unfairly blamed for the wreck? Many of the answers are in this book; others lie deep in Cook Strait, waiting to be discovered.

The Wreck of the Penguin: New Zealand's Worst 20th Century Shipwreck

Collins, Bruce E.

Sequel to the best-selling "Bent Not Broken." Since qualifying as a doctor, Lauren Roche has had some ups ... and many downs.  Bankruptcy, depression, a suicide attempt -- and the shock revelation that her son was a sex offender.  How does she triumph over all this, and at the same time achieve another goal of becoming a best-selling author?    "Life on the Line" is as gripping a read as "Bent Not Broken," and in the end just as inspiring.  Wellington doctor Lauren Roche became a successful author in 2000 with the courageous first volume of her autobiography, "Bent Not Broken." In this best-selling book Lauren described her turbulent childhood and adolescence, and her years as a prostitute and stripper, before she turned her life around.  She went back to high school and university, eventually graduating as a doctor.

Life on the Line

Roche, Lauren

Community & Culture

Art teacher Ted Lewis enlisted for war service in 1941, joining the medical corps.  Whenever off duty he sketched and painted, often in dramatic and dangerous situations.  His artistic talents were soon discovered and led to secondment as a mapmaker for General Freyberg.   Ted's art and writing reflect his passion for classical cultures and capture the atmosphere of the Middle East and Italy under the shadow of war.  His wry cartoons for the NZEF Times epitomize Kiwi humor and spirit, and helped preserve sanity in a fighting division. This diary was brought to light by Ted's former pupils.  Its superb paintings, drawings and cartoons were complemented by poignant and powerful writing.  Now, 60 years after the war, it is published for the first time. "...The ceasefire went into effect and suddenly the sounds of gunfire were no more.  It was a tremendous silence and the most remarkable thing was that then we heard another sound, the throbbing song of hundreds of skylarks, hovering up there in a perfectly blue sky.  They had probably been there all the time, but we could not hear them because of the harsh sounds of gunfire.  This was a deeply emotional moment.  I could not but think of the many young soldiers who would not hear this lovely song because they had forever entered the long silence of death, sustained even in the last hours of this offensive. The tragic waste of war - even the satisfaction of victory and the relief that the North African campaign was now over was tempered with the sadness of the awful cost."

I Was No Soldier: An Artist's War Diary

Lewis, Ted

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