ISBN: 9781988587080
Title: #NoFly: Walking The Talk on Climate Change
Author: HENDY SHAUN

What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something ¿ anything ¿ in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of one person's attempt 'to adapt'. Was this merely privileged virtue signalling? Did it compromise his work, his life? And has it left him feeling more optimistic that we can, indeed, reach a low-emissions future?

Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9780473427467
Title: 100% Kiwi Business: 9 Kiwi Success Navigators
Author: JENNINGS RYAN L

100% Kiwi Business delivers insights you can use to navigate
your own business journey, through the wisdom of what’s
working today for 100 kiwi business owners on their journey.
You will receive:
- A vision for New Zealand's future.
- Insights and lessons from 100 Kiwi Business Owners and
CEO's across
almost every conceivable industry.
- 9 business success navigators for every business stage.
- 3 ways to restructure your marke[ng capability into a media publishing
- powerhouse.
- BONUS: Includes 200+ ques[on prompts to drive your business forward.
Learn what’s working for Kiwi business owners, and unlock your own
professional and personal success.

Format: Hardback
Price: $100.00

ISBN: 9780349424903
Title: 4 Day Week: How Flexible Work Revolution Increases Productivity, Profitability & Wellbeing, & Create a Sustainable Future
Author: BARNES ANDREW

In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy.

Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20% cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning. People were happier and healthier, more engaged in their personal lives, and more focused and productive in the office.
The world of work has seen a dramatic shift in recent times: the former security and benefits associated with permanent employment are being displaced by the less stable gig economy. Barnes explains the dangers of a focus on flexibility at the expense of hard-won worker protections, and argues that with the four-day week, we can have the best of all worlds: optimal productivity, work-life balance, worker benefits and, at long last, a solution to pervasive economic inequities such as the gender pay gap and lack of diversity in business and governance.
The 4 Day Week is a practical, how-to guide for business leaders and employees alike that is applicable to nearly every industry. Using qualitative and quantitative data from research gathered through the Perpetual Guardian trial and other sources by the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology, the book presents a step-by-step approach to preparing businesses for productivity-focused flexibility, from the necessary cultural conditions to the often complex legislative considerations.
The story of Perpetual Guardian's unprecedented work experiment has made headlines around the world and stormed social media, reaching a global audience over 4.5 billion. A mix of trenchant analysis, personal observation and actionable advice, The 4 Day Week is an essential guide for leaders and workers seeking to make a change for the better in their work world.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $38.00

ISBN: 9780473525118
Title: Acting & How to Survive It Everything You Wanted to Know about Acting but Were Too Afraid to Ask...
Author: FEENEY PETER

The first-ever book published in New Zealand about acting technique, 'Acting and How to Survive it' also takes in surviving and thriving in this most challenging and alluring of vocations. Tailored to the New Zealand and Australian actor, Peter Feeney has written an indispensable guide for both the beginner and mid-career actor. You'll find not just the nuts and bolts of technique, but insights into the head game, winning psychology, and living an artistic life of resilience and integrity. Here is any actors' one-stop shop, a book destined to become a must-have for Drama Schools and classes throughout Australasia - and the world.

Format: Paperback
Price: $42.00

ISBN: 9780995103221
Title: Aging for Beginners
Author: WILSON DOUG

The business of getting older has changed and we can no longer rely on what worked for our parents or grandparents. This complete guide to all aspects of life after 60 (not just health) is essential reading for anyone approaching or already in the final third of their lives.

Format: Hardback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9780473507756
Title: Air That We Breathe
Author: DOUGLAS KARA

In 1961 Italian immigrants Abele and Maria Moretti settle into life in Western Australia. They are promised a financially secure future working in an asbestos mine in the harsh and desolate outback. Despite health warnings to management, the mine continues to operate.
Thirty years later, the unthinkable happens and the Moretti family begin an arduous journey to seek justice. At the same time Katerina, a lawyer, representing the mining company, makes a surprising discovery about her family that causes her to rethink her allegiances.
The human stories weave between the narratives of the immigrant miner and mine manager, and later, the lawyer and the miner’s daughter.
The impact of this story will stir emotions that remain long after the last page has been turned.

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780143774211
Title: All of This Is for You: A Little Book of Kindness
Author: JONES RUBY

In this new book, celebrated artist Ruby Jones shares dozens of luminous, heartfelt, hand-lettered artworks and messages. Life can be a bit overwhelming sometimes, but Ruby's witty, compassionate, beautifully observed drawings never fail to bring a smile of recognition, while her practical words of advice remind us how lucky we are to be here - and how we can be kinder to ourselves, to the people in our lives, and to the world around us. A thoughtful gift for any person needing a little inspiration in today's world. 'I hope that on any given day, rain or shine, happy tears or painful ones, you can open this book and find a page that speaks to you.' -Ruby Jones

Format: Hardback
Price: $24.00

ISBN: 9781776562893
Title: All Who Live on Islands
Author: LU ROSE

'All Who Live on Islands' introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history – a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas – to explore friendship, the weight of stories told and not told about diverse cultures, and the reverberations of our parents’ and grandparents’ choices. Frank and compassionate, Rose Lu’s stories illuminate the cultural and linguistic questions that migrants face, as well as what it is to be a young person living in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781869409340
Title: Always Song in the Water: An Oceanic Sketchbook
Author: O'BRIEN GREGORY

Beginning in Northland and heading into the blue beyond, Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters and epiphanies, a dinghy ride through New Zealand's oceanic imagination.Every spring on Gregory O'Brien's front lawn, on a ridgetop in Hataitai, an upside-down dinghy blooms with flowering clematis. In this book, O'Brien takes his metaphorical dinghy to the edges of New Zealand - starting with a road trip through Northland and then voyaging out into the Pacific, to lead us into some under-explored territories of the South Pacific imagination.With creative spirits such as Janet Frame, Ralph Hotere, Robin White, John Pule and Epeli Hau'ofa as touchstones, O'Brien suggests how we New Zealanders might be re-imagining ourselves as an oceanic people on a small island in a big piece of water.Always Song in the Water is a book of encounters, sightings and unexpected epiphanies. It is a high-spirited, personal and inventive account of being alive at the outer extremities of Aotearoa New Zealand. 'This is my field notebook, my voyaging logbook,' Gregory O'Brien writes, 'this is my Schubert played on a barrel organ, my whale survey, my songbook.'Among the many artists whose work is featured are John Pule, Robin White, Phil Dadson, Fiona Hall, Euan Macleod, Laurence Aberhart and the Sydney-based painter Noel McKenna, who produced numerous works specifically for this book.

Format: Paperback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780244243371
Title: Animal Patients & Their Owners
Author: ZUUR HANS

Back-breaking labour, lots of blood, a speedy Morris Minor, the care of animals and interactions with their owners – this is the entertaining and emotional memoir of Hans Zuur recounting his experiences and adventures as a rural veterinarian. With an honest, quirky and refreshing writing style, Hans invites the reader on a journey into the past. Exploring how working as a rural vet in the 60’s and 70’s had its trials and joys, Hans describes how the limitations of technology, a vast array of diseases and treatments and a friendly farming community led to a challenging but ultimately rewarding career.

Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9780947518653
Title: Antibiotic Resistance: The End of Modern Medicine?
Author: WILES SIOUXSIE

In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?

In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this BWB Text, microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explores the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance and its threat to New Zealand. Wiles concludes that New Zealand must do more to protect the public from a future without antibiotics.

Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9780473530686
Title: Anxious Autumn - A Covid 19 Lockdown Diary
Author: MCLEAN CHRIS

Anxious Autumn tells just a small part of a nationwide story; how one couple in a provincial city lived through a strange and historic period, when the traffic stopped, the skies cleared of pollution and the natural world reasserted itself. Historian Chris Maclean’s readable record of lockdown life focuses on both the domestic - food, alcohol and Netflix - and the wider national and international picture as the world changed with frightening speed. Some leaders, like New Zealand’s, shone in the crisis; many others were found wanting. The author’s experiences are complemented by guest writer entries and interviews to provide a diversity of lockdown experiences.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781927277676
Title: Barefoot Years
Author: EDMOND MARTIN

The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory’s infinite field.

Martin Edmond’s Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, full of half-forgotten things: what may be recovered also reveals that which is gone forever. These remembered beginnings, both familiar and strange, take us back to when a world was being made.

This BWB Text forms the first part of a full memoir by Martin Edmond to be published by Bridget Williams Books in 2015.

Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9780947493349
Title: Barry Brickell Reader
Author: BRICKELL BARRY O'BRIEN GREG (ED & INTRO)

A Barry Brickell Reader illuminates not the pottery Barry Brickell is known for, but another facet of his genius: his ‘wrertings’. Reflecting the extrusions, bulges, crevasses and bobbles, his poetry — like his pots — can be mildly offensive, but they contain the same virtues Barry associated with rail travel: sensuality, rhythm, vibration and warmth.

Here, Barry’s great creative output is laid out expansively, accompanied by a photoessay of Barry doing what he did best: working.



The real me

Why do you
keep on
telling me
I’m something
that I’m not?
Nottapotta,
not an engineer,
not an artist,
nottawriter,
Not even
a real man —
just a wrerter,
a ceramiccissist,
mudslinger
and an oddity —
which is
closer
to the actual
truth?


Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9780473436094
Title: Beauty Guide
Author: WEAVER LIBBY

In a world where so many women feel deflated by what they see in the mirror, tempted into the realm of ;enhancements; or drawn to anything that will help mask their flaws;, The Beauty Guide shines a spotlight on what it means to be beautiful and acts as a guide to help the reader feel and look their best—at any age. With a degree in nutrition and dietetics, a PhD in biochemistry and 20 years of clinical practice, Dr Libby's knowledge of what works and doesn’t work for our bodies is extensive. In this stunningly illustrated book, she explains the nutritional, biochemical and emotional basis to beauty challenges such as acne, cellulite, and rosacea, and teaches you how to heal them by deciphering the messages your body is sharing with you. But more than this, The Beauty Guide will help to reframe the way you look at beauty. Learn how to stop worrying about what others think of you, improve your relationship with your body and explore ways to inspire a new generation of girls with an innate belief in their inner beauty.

Format: Paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781988545639
Title: Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa & the World
Author: HALL NINA

In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. This book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealands role in the world. It sparks a conversation about how we can exercise leadership and influence in the international arena.

Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9780473474959
Title: Billion Dollar Bonfire
Author: LEE CHRIS

The collapse of South Canterbury Finance (SCF) is one of the biggest New Zealand stories of the last decade. The sweep of events, from Timaru to the Beehive, include some of the most revealing moments on issues critical to this country - everything from poor governance and systemic issues in the finance sector, through to the structural risks this exposed and the costs it ultimately presented to all New Zealanders. There has not yet been a book that has attempted to tell this story, certainly not one from an `insider' perspective. The Billion Dollar Bonfire by Chris Lee will be the first book to do both these things. Chris tells this fascinating story as both a long-standing New Zealand financial advisor and a protagonist in the narrative. As he writes in the opening chapter, he knew Alan Hubbard personally and, from the late 1990s, had clients invest with SCF. His main motivation for writing the book, made explicit throughout, is his overriding concern that this could all happen again without significant changes to our law and the culture of the capital markets industry. The book is underpinned by substantial research: thousands of documents - including new material from OIAs and other sources - and interviews, both public and anonymous, with many of the key figures.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781988547107
Title: Book of Knowing: Know How You Think, Change How You Feel
Author: SMITH GWENDOLINE

Learn to understand the way you think and you will create resilience and be able to deal with many of the unnecessary anxieties of life.
Written in an accessible and humorous style, this book teaches you to know what's going on in your mind and how to get your feelings under control. It'll help you adapt and feel better about your place in the world.

Psychologist Gwendoline Smith uses her broad scientific knowledge and experience to explain in clear and simple language what's going on when you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious and confused.

Originally aimed at young people, this book works for anyone because it helps you work out what is going on in your mind and how you can take control of your feelings. It's relevant whether you have a diagnosed condition or whether you are just experiencing life as too difficult right now.

Based on the school of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy this is scientific and logic-based, but also straight-forward and practical.

Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781988531533
Title: Braided River: Migration & the Personal Essay
Author: COMER DIANE

'The Braided River' explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different countries, spanning all ages and life stages. The first book to examine migration through the lens of the personal essay, 'The Braided River' presents migration as a lifelong experience that affects everything from language, home, work, family and friendship to finances, citizenship and social benefits. Like migrants themselves, 'The Braided River' crosses boundaries, working at the intersections of literature, history, philosophy and sociology to discuss questions of identity and belonging.& Throughout, Diane Comer, both migrant and essayist herself, demonstrates the versatility of the personal essay as a means to analyse and understand migration, an issue with increasing relevance worldwide.& &

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780473467432
Title: Brain Connections: How to Sleep Better, Worry Less & Feel Happier
Author: KANJI GIRESH

Dr Giresh Kanji is a thought leader and expert
in challenging our current paradigms in health
care. He is a medical specialist with a PhD. He is
a senior lecturer at Auckland University (Hon),
the chairperson of the NZ Pain Foundation
and the editor of Australasian Musculoskeletal
Medicine Journal. He has spoken in New
Zealand, Australia, Tahiti, the United States, and
Europe. Visit www.gireshkanji.com

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780473403775
Title: Bright Ideas for Young Minds: 70 Step-by-Step Activities to Do at Home With Your Child

This striking hardback book is full of activities and experiences for New Zealand children. It is an essential go-to resource for parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents of children aged 0 - 6.
Are you looking for new ideas to engage your young child's curious mind and energetic body? Ideas that are both fun and educational? Are you looking for ways to ensure that the time you spend with your child is quality bonding time?
If the answer to these questions is yes, then look no further. The team at BestStart, New Zealand's largest early learning provider, has put together this book especially for people like you. Written by over 100 early childhood educators, with contributions from Plunket, the Heart Foundation and Jumping Beans, this book is a treasure trove of activities designed to stimulate the inquiring minds of our youngest learners.


Format: Hardback
Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781988547497
Title: Brothers in Black: The Long History of Brotherhood in NZ Rugby
Author: WALL JAMIE

There's an astounding number of brothers playing in top level rugby in New Zealand. How is this so? What's it like for the siblings: do they compete with each other or do they support each other? Is there a particular climate in some families that encourages this success?

'Splendid, comprehensive, insightful and entertaining' Brian Turner, Newsroom

'An engaging and delightful read' John Campbell, TVNZ



Format: Paperback
Price: $25.00

ISBN: 9781775541448
Title: Busy As F*ck
Author: NIMMO KAREN

When did busy become a badge of honour?

In 10 on-the-couch sessions, New Zealand clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo diagnoses, explains and treats Busy as F*@K syndrome, the condition that's consuming us all, whether we realise it or not.

If we are going to squeeze the most from ourselves and our all-too-short lives, we need to be able to gauge when our Busy as F*@kness is compromising (or drip-feed destroying) our physical and emotional health, when we're hurting people we love, when we're becoming that person others want to hide from.

In these pages you'll meet people who are facing the problems most commonly reported in our Busy as F*@k worlds. Some will resonate with you - or you'll spot traits of people you know. Whenever you get an 'aha' moment, you'll find tips, tools and tactics to guide your own journey

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9781776560769
Title: Can You Tolerate This?
Author: YOUNG ASHLEIGH

Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation – Hamilton’s 90s music scene, family histories, a boy with a rare skeletal disease, a stone-collecting French postman, a desire for impossible physical transformation – trying to find some measure of clarity amid uncertainty. How to bear each moment of experience: the inconsequential as much as the shattering? Her search takes us through poignant, funny and raw territories.

‘This is a brave, sometimes confronting, always intriguing, often compelling and distinctly unusual book. The essays are consistently entertaining in a way that is rare in literary nonfiction of any kind. The voice is one which readers will fall in love with.’ —Martin Edmond

‘Some of Ashleigh Young’s personal essays feel to me like beautifully told short stories – they just happen to be true, or true-ish.’ —Bill Manhire


Ashleigh Young works as an editor in Wellington and teaches creative science writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her poetry and essays have been widely published in print and online journals, including Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction, Five Dials (UK) and The Griffith Review (Australia). Can You Tolerate This? is her second book; her first was the poetry collection Magnificent Moon (VUP, 2012). She gained an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2009, winning the Adam Prize. She blogs at eyelashroaming.com.

Cover by Elliot Elam.

Format: Paperback
Price: $30.00

ISBN: 9781080976744
Title: Case for Cannabis Law Reform
Author: MCLEOD VINCE

The Case For Cannabis Law Reform makes the comprehensive argument for reforming our cannabis laws. Across 58 fully-referenced chapters, this book covers the practical, moral, economic, cultural, medicinal, historical and spiritual reasons to repeal cannabis prohibition - among others Compiled by former Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party Membership Secretary Vince McLeod, this book contains all the arguments one could possibly have for wanting to reform our cannabis laws. It is the result of over a decade of experience in fighting for cannabis law reform.

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9780473488628
Title: Catch & Release: A Life Of Art Thoughts & Nonsense
Author: HILL MICHAEL

Catch & Release is a compilation of renowned global jeweller Sir Michael Hill's doodled diary entries, snatches of inspiration and plenty of attempted wisdom. You'll find thoughtful musings alongside chaos and contradiction spread across over 400 pages collected through the years. These drawings by Hill come directly from his imagination, scrawled on whatever is made available in front of him: board papers, airline vomit bags, or a more traditional sketch book - A spontaneous catch and release

Format: Hardback
Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781927277751
Title: Child Poverty Debate: Myths, Misconceptions & Misunderstandings
Author: BOSTON JONATHAN & CHAPPLE SIMON

What is child poverty, what evidence is there of such poverty in New Zealand and why does it matter? These questions regularly attract answers accompanied by conjecture and prejudice. This short book uses the latest evidence and a non-partisan approach, identifying child poverty as a critical issue for New Zealand’s future. Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple’s succinct introduction to this challenge, drawn from their widely acclaimed full-length book and updated with new data, is essential reading.

Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00

ISBN: 9781988531854
Title: City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case (Reprint 2019)
Author: HOOD LYNLEY

Originally published in 2001, A City Possessed is the harrowing account of one of New Zealand's most high-profile criminal cases - a story of child sexual abuse allegations, gender politics and the law.

In detailing the events of the 1990s that led up to and surrounded the allegations made against several staff of the Christchurch Civic Creche, author Lynley Hood shows how and why such a case could happen. A City Possessed won the Montana Medal for Non-Fiction at the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Format: Trade paperback
Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9781869539832
Title: Cleansed & Cured
Author: ELLIOTT BRETT

Do you suffer with any of these?
Acne, Allergies, Arthritis, Asthma, Bloating, Blood sugar problems, Blood pressure, Candida, Celiac disease, Crohn's disease, Colitis, Constipation, Diverticulitis, Eczema, Fatigue, Fluid retention, Gas, Gout, Headaches, Heartburn, Haemorrhoids, High cholesterol, Indigestion, Irritable bowel, Lazy bowel, Memory loss, Mucus congestion, Palpitations, Parasites, Psoriasis, Reflux, Sinusitis, Skin rashes, Stomach or peptic ulcers, Weight gain.

What is really causing these symptoms?
Toxic overload is the single biggest, most lethal health epidemic of our time, and it's left largely unspoken about. Now at last, here is a clear explanation of how chronic toxicity is underlying the most commons ailments in the developed world. Find out what can we do about it, and how a simple, natural inner-body cleansing programme can help with our most common health problems.

Format: Paperback
Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9781988587233
Title: Climate Dispossessed: Justice for the Pacific in Aotearoa?
Author: CROSSEN TEALL

The world is heating up beyond the capacity of some countries to cope. Entire populations of Pacific islands are threatened, jeopardising the sovereign rights of these countries and the security of the region. This book explores what a just response to the risk of climate change displacement in the Pacific could look like.

It¿s a difficult conversation. For many Pacific islands, talking about plans to abandon their country risks providing the international community with an excuse to not reduce emissions. Yet internal climate change displacement cannot be avoided, and cross-border displacement may become a reality without urgent climate action. The risk of this dispossession presents profound questions of life, identity and justice for all of us living in the Pacific, in light of the fundamental principles of international law and our commitments in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.


Format: Paperback
Price: $15.00