American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
39.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Hard by the Cloud House by Peter Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
A massive, predatory bird and its place in history and myth. The legend of Pouakai, aka the extinct Haast's Eagle, takes Peter Walker on a journey from an 1860s Canterbury sheep run to a deep cave near Karamea as he learns the story of the mighty hunter that inhabited a peak in the foothills of the Sout ...Show more
Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns: Women on the Rural Frontier in Nineteenth Century New Zealand by Robert Peden
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Histories of Pakeha settlement in New Zealand have often ignored the role of women, or devalued their contribution to mere adjuncts to the work of men. In Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns historian Robert Peden argues that not only were women present from the very beginnings of settlement, they were als ...Show more
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more
The Girl Who Touched The Stars by Bonnie Hancock
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A gripping account of the record-breaking circumnavigation by iron woman Bonnie Hancock. It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you dig. 254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest ever ...Show more
Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: A\Short History Ser.
Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, hist ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers, and poets who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of a city that ruled the known world. Through ...Show more
Foraging New Zealand: Over 250 plants and fungi to forage in New Zealand by Peter Langlands
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
New Zealand is full of incredible, edible wild foods - fruit, fungi and seaweed; berries, herbs and more - you only need to know where to look and how to do it safely. Foraging New Zealand is the ultimate guide to unearthing more than 250 of our tastiest wild plants. Packed with stunning photography, u ...Show more
Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
48.00 NZD
Category: Recent arrivals: Non-Fiction
In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. To them, it was clear that Japan's militaristic leaders needed to be tried and punished for their crimes. For the Allied ...Show more
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy by Stein Ringen
45.00 NZD
Category: History
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the A ...Show more