Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford by Leslie Brody
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This is the definitive biography of the long and adventurous life of the queen of the muckrakers. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, muckraker, and, mischief-maker. But those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain's most famou ...Show more
The Long Forgetting: Post-colonial Literary Culture in New Zealand by Patrick Evans
$19.50 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Long Forgetting is the first book-length study of New Zealand's post-colonial literary culture. Beginning with a survey of the wrenching economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred since about 1970 - including Maori protest, the anti-tour protests of 1981, Rogernomics and Ruthanasia, t ...Show more
Faces of Philip - A Memoir of Philip Toynbee by Jessica Mitford
$22.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Charlotte Mosley (Editor); Nancy Mitford; Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters in this collection.
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull of Putin and Xi it seems that democracy is in a state of decay. And as governments around the world struggle to combat the coronavirus - often adopting draconian measures as a response - there is a sense, a panic, that democracy's ...Show more
A Pipeline Runs Through It: Oil, Sovereignty and Politics to 1914 by Keith Fisher
$95.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The origin story of our modern oil age. A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to ...Show more
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso
$38.70 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
An immersive and entertaining tale based on the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood, from the renowned publisher and writer Roberto Calasso'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more ...Show more
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
$60.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the ques ...Show more
Rossetti: His Life and Works by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers of the twentiethEvelyn Waugh's first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's tragic and mysterious life- the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the ninet ...Show more
Every Sign of Life - On Family Ground by Nicholas Lyon Gresson
$69.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: new
Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldn’t be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. The story is exposed through the life and times ...Show more