Paris Match: Falling in (love) with the French by John von Sothen
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
How to become Parisian - a genuine, laugh-out-loud tale of French life.
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
$25.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS.'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' The Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] vivid, detailed account' Guardian, 'Book of the Week''Hugely enjoyable' Daily Telegraph'Fascinating' SpectatorCharles Dicken ...Show more
The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From a pioneering psychiatrist and psychotherapist comes The Devil You Know, a perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals which reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large. As a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, you could say I am a student of evil. ...Show more
The Classical School - The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Callum Williams
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their ideas we still need,
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War II In 1937, as the Nazi Party tightened its grip on the city of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), Justus Rosenberg's pa ...Show more
The Fragments of My Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Family Secrets by Sam Mills
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer. SHORTLI ...Show more
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'A magnificent and devastating work of art. There is a raging anger here, and a deep sorrow, but at the core Haydar gives us truths about love. This is one of the most important books I've ever read.' Bri Lee'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mo ...Show more
Volume Control - Hearing in a Deafening World by David Owen
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear better Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes, bones, rece ...Show more
Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand by Nic Low
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and modern satellite atlas, I crossed the Southern Alps more than a dozen times, trying to understand how our forebears saw the land. What did it mean to define your identity by sacred mountains, or actually see th ...Show more
Ravenna : Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young ...Show more
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was happy to present himself as shallow ...Show more
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
It is a myth that the First World War liberated women. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It should have marked a social revolution, opening the doors of the traditional professions to women who had worked so hard durin ...Show more