Scholastic NZ currently have three Ged Maybury titles.
Each are priced at NZ$15.99:
Horse Apples
Pig Apples
Crab Apples
Try your local bookstore for these.

Hanmer Forest: Covenanted Recreational Area
Text: Roger Keey
Photographs: Barbara Burry
Published by the Hanmer Heritage Forest Trust, Hanmer Springs, 2003
This centennial booklet covers the history, the trees, ferns, wildflowers, fungi and birds of the forest, and the memories of Brooke Dawson, enthusiast for the forest since 1926. There is a clear map of the forest and account of what you can do in Hanmer Forest and where you can go on foot or on mountain bike. Barbara Burry's beautiful photographs provide fine images to enrich the text.

Cost NZ$12.00, plus postage and packing of NZ$1.50 if posted

Available from Hanmer Springs Library, the Information Centre Hanmer Springs and the Hanmer Heritage Forest Trust (PO Box 55 Hanmer Springs 8273 NZ)

All proceeds go to the work of the Forest Trust.

Books on nuclear issues
Available from the Disarmament & Security Centre (Aotearoa)

The Naked Nuclear Emperor
Debunking Nuclear Deterrence
Robert Green
Robert Green writes:
"It has now become clear that the nuclear weapon states, led by the US, UK and France, cite nuclear deterrence doctrine as the final, indispensable justification for maintaining their nuclear arsenals. Nuclear deterrence must therefore be debunked and alternatives offered if there is to be any serious prospect of eliminating nuclear weapons..... To my knowledge, no attempt has been made since the end of the Cold War to draw together, in a concise form, a comprehensive critique of nuclear deterrence doctrine and safer alternative approaches to achieving security. That is why this booklet is needed."
NZ$10.00 plus $2.00 p & p within NZ, $7.00 outside NZ

Re-thinking Nuclear Deterrence
Summary of Arguments from The Naked Nuclear Emperor Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (Retired)
In 24 pages, this booklet summarises the arguments from The Naked Nuclear Emperor while omitting the endnotes. Now available in pdf format (3.53 MB), a hard copy version can be ordered from the Disarmament & Security Centre.
NZ$10.00 include p & p

Aotearoa / New Zealand at the World Court
Kate Dewes and Robert Green
This booklet describes the role New Zealanders played in challenging the legality of the testing, use and threat of nuclear weapons, at the World Court in The Hague. In 1996 the Court issued an Advisory Opinion confirming the general illegality of the threat or use of these weapons, and called on all governments to bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to complete nuclear disarmament under strict and effective international control.
NZ$10.00 plus $2.00 p & p within NZ, $5.00 outside NZ

Pacific Women Speak Out for Independence and Denuclearisation
Edited by Zohl dé Ishtar
Eleven indigenous women from nine Pacific countries give personal testimony to the continued suffering from the effects of colonialism and nuclear militarism. These inspiring voices of survival and strength range from Belau in US-controlled Micronesia, to the French colony of Tahiti in Polynesia, to West Papua under Indonesian military control. Their personal accounts challenge the romantic images often held about the Pacific.

NZ$5.00 plus $2.00 p & p within NZ, $5.00 outside NZ

Books by Lauren Roche
Bent Not Broken has been summarised as "Lauren's extraordinary journey from prostitute to doctor ...... a story of hope for people who need a second chance." Lauren tells of her turbulent childhood and of troubles with sex and drugs, and the turnaround in her life. Her message is "Whatever happens, don't give up on your dreams!"
This book will not be readily available until January 2004. It's out of print again, but more are being printed in Taipei. They will get to NZ in early January. The book will be available in bookstores in NZ, UK and Germany.

Life on the Line
This is a sequel to Bent Not Broken.
It is in the bookstores. If you can't get a copy of Bent Not Broken immediately you can still read and appreciate Life on the Line because there is a summary of Bent Not Broken at the beginning. It is a great encouragement to people who struggle with setbacks and depression.

NZ$24.99

Catch That Trout!
Fishing the South Island of New Zealand 2002
NZ$39.95
Catch That Trout! is the complete guide to fly fishing for trout in the South Island of New Zealand. This book has been designed so that any angler, either from New Zealand or overseas, can quickly identify the type of water they prefer to fish; be it wild mountain streams or gentle lowland waters.

Catch That Trout!
Fishing the North Island of New Zealand
2003
NZ$39.95
This is the North Island follow up to the best-selling South Island version. Like the South Island book it enables any angler to select the type of water they prefer to fish and then quickly select the technique and flies to use on that particular type of river or lake.

Gavin McLean
Oamaru History and Heritage
This is more than just an excellent guidebook with fine photos. The account of the history, especially of the whitestone buildings, is fascinating.
NZ$19.95

Neville Peat
WANAKA
The Lake Wanaka Region
Neville Peat's guides to the back country in the south of New Zealand are well known, and this one reaches the usual high standard - useful and well organised information, fine photos and clear maps.
NZ$19.95

Carol Dawber at the River Press
Detective Fiction Carol's first love is crime fiction and she is working on her fourth novel in a series featuring librarian Liz Gray and detective Doug Fisher.

The following books are available from River Press.
Website: www.bestbooks.org
Email: riverpress@xtra.co.nz

Backtrack
Earthwork
Sounds Easy
All NZ$16.95

Non-fiction on topics related to Nelson and Marlborough
Bainham, a History
NZ $42.50
North of Kahurangi, West of Golden Bay
Golden Bay photo history with Cheryl Win
NZ $49.95
Guides Alive, the Nelson Story
Nelson regional Girl Guide history
NZ$29.95
The Jacksons of Te Awaiti
Marlborough Sounds whaling and family history
NZ $59.95
Inheriting the Dream
Nelson region dairy companies history
NZ$42.50
Ferntown to Farewell Spit
Golden Bay photo-history
NZ$49.95

Geoffrey Thornton
Bridging the Gap: Early Bridges in New Zealand 1830-1939
NZ$80.00
Bridges are often seen as little more than useful works of architecture: they help us cross rivers and ravines, gullies and ditches. Bridging the Gap, however, makes an excellent argument for thinking of many of our bridges in New Zealand as works of art. Geoffrey Thornton has nurtured a lifelong interest in bridges and in this book he examines the architecture construction and financial, social and political history of some of New Zealandís earliest bridges.

Worship in the Wilderness: Early Country Churches of New Zealand
NZ$49.95
Country churches in New Zealand - whether architecturally beautiful or set amongst beautiful scenery - have become an important and often undervalued part of our built environment. In Worship in the Wilderness architectural authority Geoffrey Thornton celebrates New Zealand's country churches and examines the architectural features as well as the history of each building.

Both books are published by Reed Books, a division of Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd.

Lee Dowrick
I run in my stilettos
NZ$25
Still available through booksellers or direct from publisher Bookcaster Press, CPO Box 3765, Auckland.
Lee Dowrick is a poet who makes the 1940s and 1950s in New Zealand come alive through easy-to-read poems that recapture growing up in that era -the excitements, the setting, the customs and the atmosphere.

Published with permission from NZine