Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A blazingly creative re-imagining of the short life of one of England's greatest writers. Isolated from society, Emily Bronte and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture ou ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
$38.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order coul ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Dame Judi Dench
$42.00 NZD
Category: Music & Film/TV
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before. Internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent is a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. 'A MAGICAL LOVE LETTER ...Show more
First Man: the Life of Neil Armstrong by James Hansen
$34.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Soon to be a major motion picture, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of America's most famous astronaut, Neil Armstrong - the man whose "one small step" changed history.In First Man, Hansen explores the life of Neil Armstrong. Based on over 50 hours of interviews ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: References & Language
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The real story of Edward VIII - the King who abdicated the throne in 1936 - told in his own words, using an unpublished memoir and other never seen sources.
The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Be transported to the wild meadows of Kite's Nest Farm and peek into the surprising private lives of some of our most familiar of animals. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows. We talk about people behaving like sheep, which assumes that sheep all behave ...Show more
The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups by Dawn French
$42.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last sixty years. Nincompoop. Nitwit. Lunatic. Dork. All lovely . . . but . . . nah . . . I prefer Twat. It's neat and it's accurate somehow. Because, yes, I am a Twat . . . sometimes. Aren't we all? THE TWAT ...Show more
Toy Fights: A Boyhood by Don Paterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more general ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill: The Private and Personal Letters by All Sir Winston S.; Packwood Churchill
$43.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President ...Show more
The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Overseas Biography
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carre was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait ...Show more