The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
$33.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Notes On A Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
$23.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The HumansThe societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill. It very often feels that the way we live is almost engineered to make us unhappy. Whether it is our attitudes toward sleep, the marketing ...Show more
Burning Man: The Ascent of D. H. Lawrence by Frances Wilson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you - she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written w ...Show more
After the Tampa - From Afghanistan to New Zealand by Abbas Nazari
$39.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
The heart-rending story of a seven-year-old 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. Escaping from Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, Abbas Nazari's parents fled the country in 2001 to find a safe place in which to bring up ...Show more
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment by Max Adams
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
In a fascinating journey of rediscovery, Max Adams brings to life the forgotten experiences – and voices – of some of the most extraordinary women in history. Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. Wynflad was an Anglo-Sa ...Show more
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon: what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock's life ...Show more
Everyone Has What It Takes - A Writer's Guide to the End of Self-Doubt by William Kenower
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
An insightful guide for any writer who's ever wondered if they're talented, creative, lovable, or worthy enough. Spoiler alert: You are. As hard as the craft of writing is, the greatest challenges writers face are often within ourselves. Comparison, self-doubt, isolation, and other internal struggles ca ...Show more
Mountains and Desire - Climbing vs. the End of the World by Margret Grebowicz
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sports and Outdoors
On the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today.In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the question "why do this?" is include ...Show more
Sicily '43: The First Assault On Fortress Europe by James Holland
$24.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A major new history of one of World War II's most crucial campaigns-the first Allied attack on European soil-by the acclaimed author of Normandy '44 and a rising star in military history On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion ele ...Show more
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
$24.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas that had been sewn into its cush ...Show more
The Big Bike Trip by Freddie Gillies
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
'When you're hurting and coughing on a steep incline, it's hard to see or even think of the top, but you just gotta push a pedal at a time and keep pushing.' At Auckland Airport, three young Kiwis began an audacious - some would say crazy - journey, huddled together and wiping tears from their eyes. Fo ...Show more
Things My Son Needs to Know About The World by Fredrik Backman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood.From the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove.'You can be whatever you want to be, but that's nowhe ...Show more