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
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
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 Trials Of Nurse Kerr by Scott Bainbridge
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
Did New Zealand have a secret poisoner? In 1992, builders demolishing a Devonport home stumbled across a skeleton, triggering an investigation that sent shockwaves across the community. The remains belonged to a woman who had died in the 1930s, and whispers soon emerged of the deadly legacy of Nurse E ...Show more
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
40.00 NZD
Category: History
An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, ...Show more
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barres, who first wiel ...Show more
Down With the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian. With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose ...Show more
Environmental Defenders: Fighting for our natural world by Peart, Raewyn
80.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
For over 50 years the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has been at the forefront of protecting Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environments. From the Think Big power projects of the 1970s, to coastal developments on pristine northland beaches and the destruction of the Mackenzie Country’s unique d ...Show more
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
40.00 NZD
Category: History
No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicentre of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
40.00 NZD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley's memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend. Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together a ...Show more
Hold my Hand, Rosie. Don't Let Go: A mother-and-daughter story of addiction, despair, and hope by Madeline & Rosie Redding
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Rosie is a shy young teenager when she starts experimenting with alcohol. When Rosie’s parents finally realise that their beloved daughter is having problems with her drinking, Rosie is firmly in the grip of alcoholism. What follows is the true story of a family’s battle over ten years to find help for ...Show more