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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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    Built for This - Brad Poulter
    This honest, funny and at times heartbreaking memoir follows Brad Poulter, with his almost 20 years in the New Zealand Navy.From small-town New Zealand to serving in Afghanistan, his own journey being comfortable with his sexuality mirrors that of the navy itself: from a time of 'don't ask, don't te...
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    Home Again - Jon Toogood PRE-ORDER
    PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW - RELEASE DATE 25 AUGUSTHome Again: My life and times in a band called ShihadJoin rock-legend, former Shihad frontman and lead singer of The Adults, Jon Toogood in this unflinching and no-holds-barred memoir Home Again.This is more than a rock story.Toogood looks back on a 37...
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    The Unlikely Doctor: From gang life and prison to becoming a doctor at 56 - the …
    The extraordinary story of Dr Timoti Te Moke who - having endured a horrific childhood of beatings and abuse, then gang life, stints in prison and an unsupported manslaughter charge - became a doctor at the age of 56 and is a staunch advocate for Māori. Born into love but then thrust into violence...
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    All the Medals Have Been Handed Out - Guy Martin
    The million-selling truck mechanic with stories of Colombian kartels, an Arctic mission with the marines, endurance motorbike challenges, plus a few smashes, breaks and sprains along the way.Guy’s been pushing himself to the outer limits, as usual. There's no medals, no big ceremony at the end of...
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    Mark of the Lion: the Story of Charles Upham VC & Bar - Kenneth Sandford
    Charles Upham was the great New Zealand war hero. He was one of the few people in history to have won the Victoria Cross twice, setting new standards of personal heroism during World War II.A quietly spoken sheep farmer back home in Canterbury, at the front in Crete and North Africa he destroyed ene...
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    The Last Secret Agent - Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson
    The extraordinary untold story of Pippa Latour, who parachuted into occupied France in 1944 as an undercover agent. 'The most remarkable story of a most courageous woman' - Hon Judith CollinsThis is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operations agents in France to get out al...
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    The Specialist: How to clean a crime scene and other messes - Ben Giles
    The breathtaking, unputdownable insider account of Britain's most hidden professionWhat happens after the police tape comes down?Ben Giles has spent thirty years cleaning what most people can't bear to imagine. Dead bodies decomposing for weeks. Kitchen floors painted with blood. Hoarders' homes whe...
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    An Ocean and a Day - Hannah Richell
    A powerful and poignant memoir on grief, loss and hope, from the internationally bestselling author of The Search PartyAn utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love.'An Ocean and a Day is a gift for those who have suffer...
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    One Last Question, Prime Minister - Barry Soper
    From Muldoon to Luxon, untold stories from the House of Parliament Barry Soper has spent close to five decades questioning New Zealand's prime ministers.From the imposing, larger-than-life characters of Rob Muldoon and David Lange, to the golden age of Helen Clark and John Key, and the post-Covid er...
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    Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour, Clarkson and Me - Andy W…
    IN STORE SOON. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.Twenty years of magic and mayhem on Top Gear and The Grand Tour - from the mysterious man behind the camera.Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights. It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemis...
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    All In: a mother's journey through autism - Karina McHardy
    A DEEPLY PERSONAL AND UNIVERSALLY RESONANT STORY OF HOW ONE CHILD'S EARLY YEARS TRANSFORMED EVERYTHING HIS MOTHER THOUGHT SHE KNEW – ABOUT SYSTEMS, CARE AND HERSELF.When Karina McHardy's son was diagnosed with severe autism as a toddler, she devoted herself to nurturing his potential. But as it be...
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    A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides - Gisèle Pelicot
    The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for ‘shame to change sides’. For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.The extraordinarily powerful memoir by a heroine of our times, whose story inspires change, compassion and courage.One November da...
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    The Surgeon of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester
    ' This would be a good read for those of you who have already read 'Dictionary of Lost Words' by Pip Williams, a fictional telling of the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary. You may also be interested in 'The Dictionary People' by Sarah Ogilvie, a book about the unsung people that helped cre...
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    The Happiest Man on Earth: Illustrated Edition - Eddie Jaku
    Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country.Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day...
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    True Crime: A Memoir - Patricia Cornwell
    The jaw-dropping and deeply moving memoir from the godmother of forensic crime and creator of SCARPETTA, the global #1 Amazon Prime TV series, starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis.'Let's start, and end, with this: Patricia Cornwell's autobiography, TRUE CRIME, could be the best book she's eve...
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    The Chief and the Empire: The incredible story of Te Pahi, the Māori trailblaze…
    A 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 curiosity about the Pākehā world forged alliances, sa...
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    Bush Doctor - Damien Brown
    A memoir from the beautiful, rugged heart of outback AustraliaThe author of the bestselling Band-Aid for a Broken Leg comes home and discovers that being a doctor in outback Australia is at least as challenging as working for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. Damien is convinced that this is the b...
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    Winter Warmers : Recipes & Stories From A New Zealand High Country Station - Phi…
    The bestselling author of A High Country Life shares more stories of living in the isolated mountains of New Zealand, plus 70 hearty recipes. Philippa's much-loved book A High Country Life sprang from her popular Instagram page, 'What's for Smoko'. Full of great stories of living through the seasons...
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    Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton - Martha Ackmann
    In Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American Original. From her impoverished childhood in the Smoky Mountains to international stardom as a singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and philanthropist, Dolly Parton has exceeded every...
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    Kaikaukau/The Swimmer: i te Ao o te Reo - Witi Ihimaera Smiler
    New Zealand’s leading Māori writer decides at eighty to learn te reo Māori. Novelist, memoirist and playwright Witi Ihimaera – author of Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider – decided, at the age of eighty, to dive back into the water and spend a year full time at Te Wānanga Takiura, immers...
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    The Make-Believe: A memoir of magic and madness - Hannah Murray
    From the actor in Skins and Games of Thrones, a deeply intimate, shockingly honest memoir about acting, fame, mental illness and the struggle to leave a cult-like organisation whose belief in magic shattered Hannah’s reality.In 2017, Hannah Murray was a successful actor whose career had taken her...
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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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    Out of the Ashes: A young woman's survival of White Island, and the mother&…
    A powerful memoir about one young woman's survival against the odds, and how the love of her mother saved her.When the White Island volcano erupted in New Zealand in 2019, it shattered the lives of Stephanie and Marie Browitt.Stephanie, just 23 years old, suffered horrific burns to 70 per cent of he...
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    Diddly Squat: The Farmer's Dog - Jeremy Clarkson (small format)
    It's been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - and another book full of hilarious storiesClarkson’s farm is the gift that keeps on giving, and now our hero has decided to bring his misunderstood entrepreneurial flair to bear on a new venture: a pub. Let the doors open on The Farmer’s Do...
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