The Little Book of Christmas: A Celebration of the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Unnamed
$16.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
Christmas is the favorite time of the year for many of us, with present exchanges, food & drink and socializing with friends & family at the top of the agenda. But what are the true origins and meaning of this seemingly inexhaustible celebration? Although most of our current customs only go bac ...Show more
William Morris: His Homes and Haunts by The Countess of Warwick
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd'History at its very best and a fabulous translation, too' Graham HurleyIn March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinri ...Show more
Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen by A. N. Wilson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A celebration of HRH, Queen Elizabeth II: one of the most remarkable rulers of our age.
Whistler - A Biography by Stanley Weintraub
$17.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
He was the most notorious and misunderstood American artist of his time, and also the most influential. To this day James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is one of the most recognized names in painting because of his celebrated (and endlessly satirized) Whistler's Mother, one of the treasures of th ...Show more
Childhood, Youth & Exile - Being Parts I & II of My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
This book comprises the first two parts of Herzen's autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, one of the greatest monuments of Russian literature, comparable to the major works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. Herzen begins with his nurse's account of Napoleon's occupation of Moscow in 1812, and continu ...Show more
A Sort of Conscience - The Wakefields by Philip Temple
$55.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
This remarkably engaging study of a Wakefield family that played a prominent role in the settlement of New Zealand and other English colonies draws on a rich store of personal letters to paint a portrait of a complex family whose influence crossed the globe. A gripping family story, this volume also pro ...Show more
Robert Byron by James Knox
$15.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The widely acclaimed first biography of one of the most dazzling figures of the twenties and thirties
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World by Saul John Ralston
$22.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Despite the near-religious conviction with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds its original promise that nation-states were heading toward irrelevance, to be replaced by the power of global markets; that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of huma ...Show more