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30 Things I’d Like You To Know About Bipolar
by Katie Rickson
Published 2025, 68 pages, 4.3″ x 7″ (pocketbook-sized)
Book: NZ$25 / Digital (PDF): NZ$10
A valuable, tender and quick read for anyone curious about what life’s like with bipolar.
Whether you live with bipolar, or someone you love, lead or look after lives with bipolar, this is a compassionate book told from Katie’s lived experience perspective.
Faith After Forty
by Simon Greening
Published 2023, 130 pages, 5″ x 8″
NZ$25
“This book is about integrating life and faith and the journey that I am on as I attempt to do just that. I think about life and death and everything in between. ‘Everything in between’ includes relationships, money, career, parenting, renovating and all the other things in between.
But I also believe that I am a spiritual being. I believe that I am made up of body, spirit, and soul. I want to develop a deeper spiritual life in my context: as a lawyer, a husband, a parent, a mortgage holder, a son, a friend, a colleague, a business owner – how does faith translate into each context?”
Everything Begins With E
by Erica Hilton
Published 2022, 349 pages
NZ$40+p&p
This is Erica’s diary of a 100-day journey to break an addiction. Written openly and honestly, Erica shares her deeply spiritual and introspective understanding of her present and future self, and what is possible when you commit to being distraction-free.
Chaos, Coffee, and Getting Stuff Done: My guide for the ambitiously exhausted
by Pauline Stockhausen
Published 2025, digital PDF
NZ$14.95
“This is not for the person who has it all figured out. It is for the one running on fumes, still showing up, still building, and wondering why nobody warned them it would be this hard. Written from the real trenches of solo parenting, starting a business from nothing, and learning to trust yourself when everything feels like too much. Practical, honest, and zero fluff.”
Aotearoa New Zealand & The Pandemic: A vehicle for reimagining our working lives, and reflecting on our lifestyles
by Philp Dewe
Published 2024, 257 pages, 6″ x 9″
What if the pandemic didn’t just change our lives, but gave us the chance to reimagine them?
In this thought-provoking book, Philip Dewe explores how New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic became more than just a reflection of a health crisis. It also served as a powerful moment of reflection on how we work and live.
The Monster Inside of Me
by Emma Mackie
Published 2021, 61 pages
A heart on the sleeve, no holds barred, honest account about a struggle and fight for physical survival while battling an internal enemy—anorexia. A book that’s not for the faint-hearted, but a glimpse into the reality of an anorexic mind. Through sharing her own experience, Emma aims to provide a toolkit to enable others to fight their internal food enemies—or those of a friend, a sibling, a parent or even a stranger.
A Heart That Broke Free
by Liz Fry
Published 2025, 369 pages
NZ$35
Part memoir, part roadmap, part toolbox – this story will walk beside you with honesty, warmth, and wisdom. It’s for those ready to stop hiding, start healing, and truly live.