The Bookseller's Tale (PB) by Martin Latham
$26.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
$30.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it — and explains why they have died today.Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What Yo ...Show more
The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean; Adriana Hunter (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1939, after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo travelled from the US to France - the beginning of a unique period of her life. Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo s ...Show more
Heart of the City The Story of Christchurch's Controversial Cathedral by Edmund Bohan
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
From the days even before Christchurch was settled its cathedral has been the focus of ferocious public debate: Where should a cathedral be built? How would it be paid for? Should it be built in wood or stone in an earthquake-prone country? Who should oversee the building? It took far too long to build ...Show more
Dogs Gods by Tim Flach
$90.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In a remarkable series of original photographs, award-winning artist Tim Flach examines and celebrates the wonder of the dog. Drawing on access to some of the world's most prized dogs and breeds, along with insights into cutting-edge research on the human-dog relationship, Flach and writer Lewis Blackwe ...Show more
Mala's Cat by Mala Kacenberg
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A moving Holocaust memoir about the unlikely friendship between a young Jewish girl and a stray cat and their survival against the odds. Growing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German inv ...Show more
Fry's Ties by Stephen Fry
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Every single one of Stephen Fry's ties - whether floral, fluorescent, football themed; striped or spotty, outrageous or simply debonair - tells an intimate tale about a moment in Stephen's life; each one is a window into shared cultural, historical, economic and social moments in time. Fry's Ties is a ...Show more
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$40.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the terror that no-one will care or that we will get in trouble? How do we identify and overcome everything that gets in our way so we can start making work?Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink sho ...Show more
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Dancing with the Machine by Jo Morgan; John McCrystal
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Mountaineer, adventurer, avid motorcyclist and constant traveller, Jo Morgan has lived an extraordinary life.The youngest of eight children, Jo was brought up largely by her mum after her father died when she was only one, and she has always had an adventurous side. As soon as she turned 15, Jo got her ...Show more
A Short History of the Russian Revolution - Revised Edition by Geoffrey Swain
$33.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
The 1917 Revolution sent shockwaves throughout the globe, setting a chain of events in motion that would change the entire course of the 20th century. With the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty, Russia was plunged into the political unknown and, from the crucible of social unrest, ideological conflict an ...Show more