Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever. Esquire New in giftable hardcover, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens-a collection of witty and deeply informed writings on wine, beer, and cocktails, from one of the all-time experts. Kingsley Amis was one of the great ...Show more
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
Not so long ago, feeling intimations of mortality, Jan Morris embarked on a wholly novel literary enterprise. What began as a series of high-minded letters to her late daughter--in the style of Lord Chesterfield addressing his son--quickly transformed itself into a potpourri of mini-essays and vibrant r ...Show more
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis . . . will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard ...Show more
Finding Calm - Managing fear and anxiety in an uncertain world by Sarb Johal
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
We live in a troubled world - so many changes, so many uncertainties. This book gives a range of practical skills to help anyone come to terms with feelings of anxiety and learn to thrive. How do you deal with your anxieties and fears when there is so much uncertainty in our world? Are we safe from Covi ...Show more
A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House by Matt Gibberd
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House - in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand - and went on to inspire a generation to live more ...Show more
The Secrets of Character by Matt Bird
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An insightful and actionable guide to creating a hero that readers will fall in love with, from the author of The Secrets of StoryThe hardest yet most essential element of writing great fiction is character - specifically, creating a central hero who is relatable, compelling, and worth the reader's prec ...Show more
New York: An Illustrated History by Ric Burns
$140.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A revised and expanded edition of the landmark, ravishing history of New York City-the companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series-that begins in 1624 and brings its 400-year-long story up to the current moment.This edition of the biography of this great and ever-evolving city includes two new chapters ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
Hunting Life: Moments Of Truth by Peter Ryan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
Intrepid hunter, adventurer and writer Peter Ryan has produced yet another deeply satisfying collection of hunting tales, complemented by sensational imagery. His new collection Hunting Life - Moments of Truth delivers superbly written essays on hunting, the natural world and life in general from an a ...Show more
Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts, streamlined, full of movement and brilliant colour, summing up the hectic interwar ye ...Show more
The Birds Began to Sing - A Memoir of a New Zealand Composer by Dorothy Buchanan
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
Dorothy Buchanan is a prolific, much loved and much awarded composer, who pioneered the composer-in-schools scheme and has been a force in music and music-making in Aotearoa for over half a century. Born in 1945 on the West Coast, she grew up as one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Do ...Show more
Across the Pass: A Collection of Tramping Writing by selected by Shaun Barnett
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Tramping is a journey into mountainous country, across passes, along ridges, beside rivers or through forests. It is a journey also, perhaps, to discovering more about the native plants and animals existing in these wild ecosystems, and a journey into friendship or self-discovery. New Zealand trampers h ...Show more