The Glamour Boys: Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
$25.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY'Superb' Stephen Fry'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor'Astonishing' Peter FrankopanWe like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one chapter that has never been tol ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Who Lived There? The Stories Behind Historic New Zealand Buildings by Nicola McCloy; Jane King
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
You can't help but wonder about the stories behind the unusual buildings you see around New Zealand - from cute colonial cottages to abandoned industrial buildings or ghost towns. Nicola McCloy went looking to find out ... who lived there? From basic stone cottages in barren-looking countryside to prett ...Show more
A Dog's Best Friend by Laura Greaves
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
These uplifting stories of dogs and their unlikely mates are living proof of the life-changing power of friendship.Humans have been lucky enough to call dogs our best friends ever since one bravewolf dared sneak food scraps from a campfire more than 20,000 years ago - butwe'renot theonlycreaturestoexper ...Show more
Red Notice - A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
'Will Loxley has a deft touch, wit, and a panoramic eye which would have pleased Cyril Connolly himself.' John Sutherland, author of Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me'A marvelous tour d'Horizon, written with energy and an eye for the spot-on detail, and creating a rich picture of culture, art, work, fr ...Show more
The Anna Karenina Fix - Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
$40.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country) ...Show more
The Invention of Sicily by Jamie Mackay
$43.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spanish and the French for thousands of year, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, produc ...Show more
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Why do some writers destroy themselves by drinking alcohol? Before our health-conscious age it would be true to say that many writers drank what we now regard as excessive amounts. Graham Greene, for instance, drank on a daily basis quantities of spirits and wine and beer most doctors would consider as ...Show more
The Spirit of Cardrona: Where Dreams are Hatched by Desiree Reid-Whitaker
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The inspirational story of the Cardrona Distillery 'Ever since I was really little, I have dreamed big dreams. It's nice to imagine what could be, and leave it at that. But I've never been that sort of dreamer. I've always wanted to take one of my dreams, find just the right one-and turn it into someth ...Show more
The Lost Art of Dying - Reviving Forgotten Wisdom by L. S. Dugdale
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A Columbia University physician comes across a popular medieval text on dying well written after the horror of the Black Plague and discovers ancient wisdom for rethinking death and gaining insight today on how we can learn the lost art of dying well in this wise, clear-eyed book that is as compelling a ...Show more
How Spies Think - Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand
$26.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 'An invaluable guide to avo ...Show more