Vanishing Ice: Stories of New Zealand's Glaciers

Lynley Hargreaves

Written by Lynely Hargreaves, this important new book describes New Zealand's glaciers, and how we have interacted with them. Glaciation has had a huge impact on the shape of the New Zealand landscape. Enormous rivers of ice once flowed out onto the Canterbury Plains, stretched beyond the current West ...

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Richard Flanagan

'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age', James RebanksIn a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's ag...

Fresh: Family Recipes & Stories Inspired by Stephanie’s Kitchen Gardens

Stephanie Alexander

'The world of food is endlessly intriguing. After more than 60 years of cooking and sharing meals, I am still in love with it.' For the last 20 years, Stephanie Alexander, Australia's most respected and authoritative cook and food writer, has been encouraging our children to develop a deep love of good ...

Take Me to Your Leader

Leonie Agnew

Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? A madcap novel by an award-winning author for readers 8 years and older.   Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for ...