In Search of Isaiah Berlin - A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism - have become ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more
J.D. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
This book, a new edition in The Last Interview series, collects the rare, revealing, and essential public records of the elusive giant - from his very first interview to his last (a deposition in his lawsuit against his biographer Ian Hamilton, of all things) - to reveal a man fiercely resistant to the ...Show more
Lou Reed:The Last Interview by Lou Reed
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock ’n’ roll—as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the man himself In this collection of powerful interviews given over thirty years—including his final interview—Lou Reed oscillates between losing patience with his ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
Rough Beauty - Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions with "candor and] admirable courage" (Christian Science Monitor). Determined to live an independent li ...Show more
The Patient Assassin - A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand
$27.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The "compelling and] vivid" (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lie ...Show more
Let Me Not Be Mad - A Story of Unravelling Minds by A. K. Benjamin
$24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Let Me Not Be Mad is an immersive, virtuosic and provocative investigation of madness, love and self-destruction that defies categorisation. 'Exhilarating ... dazzling ... a miraculous feat' Guardian 'I have rarely read a more haunting and enthralling account of a descent into madness' Stephen Fry 'Stun ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain they must have had ...Show more
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
In the internationally acclaimed Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes showed that the whole sweep of a national story can be captured in a short book packed with maps and graphics, throwing striking new light on the present day. Now he does the same for his own country. From the Roman invasion thro ...Show more
Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother in the 21st century. It seems so different from the experience we had of our grandmothers. Although perhaps the human essential, love, hasn't shifted much? In thoughtful, provok ...Show more
A Short History of New Zealand by Gordon McLauchlan
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
A new edition of the bestselling short history on New Zealand, updated to include the Helen Clark years, the rise of John Key, the Christchurch earthquakes and the 2011 Rugby World Cup! A lively and accessible history written by one of our most well-known commentators on matters past and present. Succin ...Show more