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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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    Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture - Justine Picardie
    Published ahead of the centenary of the Queen's birth and sumptuously illustrated with over 100 images, this is an exquisite hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. Features over 100 sumptuous imagesFrom the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its lead...
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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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    Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton - Martha Ackmann PRE-ORDER
    DUE IN STORE LATE APRIL PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOWIn 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...
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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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    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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    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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    Every Second Counts - Charlotte Glennie
    Every 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 military and political crackdowns and nat...
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    Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard - Ken Rideout
    Inspirational memoir & bro self-development, from the world's fastest marathon runner over 50, who overcame poverty and addiction on his path to greatnessBorn into a broken family just outside of Boston, Ken Rideout grew up in a household persistently scarred by drugs and crime. At just eighteen, he...
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    Night, Ma - Elizabeth Knox PRE-ORDER
    DUE IN STORE APRIL PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOWFor three and a half years, calamities hit Elizabeth Knox and family in rapid succession. Her sister suffered a psychotic break and was hospitalised against her will, her husband’s brother died by violence, and her mother was diagnosed with motor neurone d...
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    The Crash: A Memoir - Sally Wenley PRE-ORDER
    DUE IN STORE APRIL PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOWIn 1987 Sally Wenley was the driven, fun-loving and at times naughty sports prefect of her Hawke's Bay school with everything to live for. When a bus crashed on a school trip, five people were killed and she became a paraplegic, her sporting dreams in tatter...
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    Searching for Charlie - Tom Scott
    A paperback edition of the massive bestselling HB.Charles Upham was the most highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of WWII, and could arguably be called the bravest soldier of the war. An unassuming stock worker/ valuer at the beginning of the war, he stormed through Crete and the West...
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    Hold my Hand Rosie. Don't Let Go: A mother-and-daughter story of addiction,…
    Rosie is a shy young teenager when she starts experimenting with alcohol. When Rosie’s parents finally realise that their beloved daughter is having problems with her drinking, Rosie is firmly in the grip of alcoholism.What follows is the true story of a family’s battle over ten years to find he...
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    Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture - Justine Picardie PRE-ORDER
    DUE IN STORE APRIL PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOWPublished ahead of the centenary of the Queen's birth and sumptuously illustrated with over 100 images, this is an exquisite hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. Features over 100 sumptuous imagesFrom the birth...
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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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    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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    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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