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A personally curated independent bookshop; an extensive range across all book genres - cookery, childrens, crime, MBS, war, general fiction. Also selling homewares, gifts and accessories. Brands include Merinomink, Scribbler, George & Edi, Downlights, Lily & George. Shop on-line or in-store. Delivery Nationwide
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    Dream Dealer: From prisoner to professor, the extraordinary life of New Zealand&…
    From drug dealer to don. an unforgettable story of redemption and reinvention from New Zealand's leading criminologist. Growing up in 1950s Auckland, Greg Newbold's early years were marked by order and chaos in equal measure, as his stable childhood later became transformed by his mother's alcoholis...
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    Surviving White Island - Kelsey Waghorn
    An inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery after surviving the New Zealand volcanic eruptionSurviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery, from someone who lived through the Whakaari White Island volcanic eruption."I hea...
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    Ruth Dallas: A Writers Life - Diana Morrow
    Ruth Dallas (1919–2008) is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinctive, respected and influential literary voices. Yet despite her international success and her enduring presence as one of the country’s most anthologised poets, the full extent of her contribution to New Zealand literature h...
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    Anecdotage: The First 95 Years - Margaret Mills
    Author of 'The Nine Lives of Kitty K'A richly illustrated collection of anecdotes from the life of a 95-year-old Waiheke novelist and adventurer.Margaret Mills threw snowballs at Ed Hillary; danced in the streets on VJ day; worked for a bookie; ran a Queenstown B&B; raised four children; crewed on t...
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    My Gardening Life - Mary Berry
    A personal memoir from one of the country’s leading cooks on her passion for gardening, plants, and growing her own food‘In another life I may have been a gardener’Well-known and loved as a cookery writer and presenter, this is Mary Berry’s deeply personal account of the second great love of...
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    The Chief and the Empire: The incredible story of Te Pahi, the Māori trailblaze…
    DUE IN STORE LATE APRIL PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOWA forgotten hero. A fatal misunderstanding. A story that shaped two nations. The Chief and the Empire uncovers the extraordinary true tale of Te Tai Tokerau rangatira Te Pahi — the first influential Māori leader to cross the Tasman — whose curiosit...
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    Be Brave - Barbara Dreaver
    • Candid, startling, hugely engaging memoir• Barbara Dreaver appears nightly on 6pm 1News• Author has won many awards – and faced death threats• Rare unvarnished account of life on the Pacific frontlineBarbara Dreaver has covered the Pacific for over 30 years. During this time the vast oce...
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    Every Second Counts - Charlotte Glennie PRE-ORDER
    DUE IN STORE MARCH PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOWEvery Second Counts is a fascinating, fast-paced memoir by award-winning journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident.She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events, including...
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    Peace Be With You! My Words to the Church and to the World - Leo XIV Pope
    The first American Pope’s words for the world reveal themes to his leadership: peace, hope, and unity."I would like this greeting of peace to resound in your hearts, in your families, among all people, wherever they may be, in every nation and throughout the world. Peace be with you!"With his firs...
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    Letter from Provence: Two women, two centuries, and a village house in France - …
    Australian journalist Sheryle Bagwell's move to Provence is enlivened by the discovery of a book of seventeenth-century letters. 'A tale of enduring love replete with hope.' Geraldine DoogueAfter buying an ancient stone house in Provence, Australian journalist Sheryle Bagwell finds in her attic an o...
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    Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year - Tara Richardson
    Jane Austen for Every Day of the Year is a charming collection of 366 quotes and short passages drawn from Jane Austen's novels, with excerpts from her intimate, witty letters scattered throughout.This book is perfect for reading or sharing and brings you passages from Jane Austen's best-loved class...
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    Champions Do Extra: Lessons from the rugby legend on resilience, mindset and lea…
    A transformational new book about mindset, from rugby and league icon Brad Thorn.Brad Thorn's career rewrote the rules of what an athlete can achieve.From his country upbringing on the frosty fields of Otago in New Zealand to the baked turf of Queensland in Australia, Brad Thorn reveals the powerful...
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    Two Women Living Together - Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo
    Two Korean women, living life on their own terms - together. The warm and witty Korean bestseller that redefines family life.'Two Women Living Together is a wonderfully calming and cosy read. I always adore stories of women who choose to live beyond the confines of cultural expectation—and this bo...
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    Gone Bush: A life in the backcountry and beyond - Paul Kilgour
    The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend.Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond the farm and along the coast. During these wanderings, he met old folk living simply in tiny huts out the back of farms and on...
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    Bill McLeod, Mountaineering Legend - Ross Cullen
    This remarkable story of Bill McLeod, legendary New Zealand mountaineer, is written by Ross Cullen with Pip Lynch.Bill McLeod did not start mountaineering until he was thirty, when he moved to New Zealand in 1978. With an instinct for adventure and a fierce determination he taught himself to climb...
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    Frankly - Nicola Sturgeon
    'A triumph. Frankly is the most insightful and stylishly open memoir by a politician since Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father'Andrew O'Hagan'Nicola Sturgeon tells her remarkable story with great skill and unflinching honesty'Alan JohnsonThe enduring popularity of Nicola Sturgeon, the first female...
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    Jacinda - The Untold Stories - David Cohen with Rebecca Keillor
    ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONSDrawing on more than 100 interviews and extensive research, journalists DAVID COHEN and REBECCA KEILLOR track the rise, fall and re-emergence of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern onto the global stage, just as the UN gears up to choose a new Secretary-General. With the wo...
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    This Is It Then : An Autobiography - Garrick Tremain
    From farm sheds to art galleries, from shipwrecks and sketchbooks to the pages of the daily news, Garrick Tremain has lived a life as colourful as his watercolour paintings.In This Is It Then, the celebrated New Zealand artist and political cartoonist reflects on a lifetime of adventure - from horse...
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    Seven Tenths Of A Second - Zak Brown
    Lessons in Leadership from a World Championship Winning F1 Team BossMcLaren Racing hadn't won a championship in twenty-six years - until Zak Brown joined the team.A professional racer for ten years, Zak Brown is a CEO who knows how to bring the competitive mindset of a life in motorsport to building...
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    Its Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession: Essays on Life - Peta Mathias
    Join us for a launch event; 23rd October at 7pm. Come along for a fun evening of great company and even better stories. Please RSVP for this free event - Let us know at the shop or email sara@emmasatoxford.comDo we really have to have Persian dried rose petals, Pete? I mean, on a scale of one to ten...
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    The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
    The bestselling true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey not of escape but salvation.Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the bra...
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    The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay - Christopher Clarey
    An intimate biography of tennis's living legend Rafael Nadal.Tennis is not short on history. When Nadal arrived on the scene in 2005, the record for men's singles titles at the French Open stood at six, held by Bjorn Borg. Almost twenty years later, Nadal has more than doubled Borg's total with a mi...
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    Mana - Tame Iti
    Iconic Māori activist, artist, and performer Tāme Iti shares his extraordinary life, defined by resistance, resilience, and rangatiratanga. Mana. It's a big word. But what is it? Are you born with it, can you earn it, can it be taken away?For more than five decades, Tāme Iti has stood at the hear...
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    What Have I Done?: My Autobiography - Ben Elton
    What has Ben Elton done?He's written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. That’s what.And prior to that? Well he’s pretty much done everything and worked with everybody and now he’s telling the whole story in one unputdownable volume. Sixty-five years in the ma...
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