Manifesto - On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and act ...Show more
The Grief Handbook - A Guide Through the Worst Days of Your Life by Bridget McNulty
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This is a practical, empathetic guide to help sufferers navigate through the heavy fog of bereavement. The Grief Handbook provides guidance from someone who has been there. Bridget McNulty lost her mum suddenly, and found herself unexpectedly amongst the chaos of grief while bringing up small childr ...Show more
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A newly discovered classic- a collection of inspirational lectures on embracing life from worldwide bestseller Viktor Frankl.'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark ...Show more
The Last Duel: Now a major film starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer by Eric Jager
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The gripping, atmospheric true story of the duel to end all duels- a trial by combat pitting a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight's beautiful young wife. Now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott. In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris mon ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
Fifty Years a Feminist by Sue Kedgley
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A pioneering New Zealand feminist reflects on fifty years of feminism. In 1971 Sue Kedgley and a group of other young feminists carried a coffin into Auckland’s Albert Park to protest against decades of stagnant advancement for New Zealand women since they won the right to vote in 1893. From that day, s ...Show more
Brutal - The 100 Year Fight for World Rugby Supremacy by Ron Palenski
$38.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
This year marks a hundred years of the greatest rivalry the rugby world has known, New Zealand against South Africa. These titans first met on a test field in 1921 and, coincidentally, in the hundredth year of their battle for supremacy, they will also play their 100th test. The intense, unmatched rival ...Show more
Those Who Forget - One Family's Story; a Memoir, a History, a Warning by Geraldine Schwarz; Laura Marris (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz
During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich.
Animal: Exploring the Zoological World by Phaidon Editors
$90.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Explore the beauty and diversity of the animal world through more than 300 captivating images from across time and from every corner of the globe Animal: Exploring the Zoological World is a visually stunning and broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind's ongoing fascination with anima ...Show more
The Last Assassin - The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Written with passion, authority and insight... a political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' - Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking by Marimekko, Laird Borrelli-Persson
$110.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Marimekko held their first fashion show in 1951, where the clean lines and bright patterns made waves on the Scandinavian fashion scene. By 1960, Jacqueline Kennedy was wearing Marimekko, and the brand established itself as a global presence, frequently being featured in Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar ...Show more