Whakaaetanga - Acceptance by Marlene J. Bennetts; Theo Macdonald (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels'D. J. TAYL ...Show more
Little Bird of Auschwitz by Jacques Peretti
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only one.'As a reporter, Jacques Perett ...Show more
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$55.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini - Benito Mussolini’s favourite daughter - and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from award-winning historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead Edda Mussolini was Benito’s favourite daughter- spoilt, venal, uneducated but cl ...Show more
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL,D.
$525.00 NZD
Category: Antiquarian | Reading Level: very good
During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lake Ngami on the map, and was the first white man to cross the African continent. Diaries, reports and letters are combined to create a wonderful narration of ...Show more
Spare Parts - A Surprising History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world, but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. In Spare Parts, cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost ...Show more
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of wa ...Show more
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography - 5 Volume Set by Orange Claudia
$375.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs
Complete five volume set of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, covering the years 1769-1960.
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn''Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them' Ian RankinRick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The t ...Show more
The Salvation Army - 150 Years of Blood and Fire by Stephen Huggins
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
In 2015 the Salvation Army celebrated the 150th anniversary of its birth in the poverty and squalor of London's East End. Today the Army is to be found in towns and cities throughout Britain, its members readily recognized through their military uniform and their reputation for good works widely acknowl ...Show more
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through My Childhood by Bill Bryson
$19.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may h ...Show more