The Repair Shop: A Make Do and Mend Handbook by Karen Farrington
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
How do you replenish the stuffing in your favourite sofa seat or your child's beloved, tatty teddy bear? How do you remove a water mark left on your wooden table? What's the best way to prevent your leather from cracking? We all have items in our homes that sit about in a state of disrepair while we mu ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
25.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
The Survivor by Josef Lewkowicz; Michael Calvin
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable fait ...Show more
Honouring Our Ancestors - Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-being by Edited by Alison Green and Leonie Pihama
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatāpui, two-spirit, and Māori and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities. Themes include resistance, reclamation, empowerment, transformation and healing. Cen ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Where the Flaming Hell Are We?: The story of young Australians and New Zealanders fighting the Nazis in Greece and Crete by Craig Collie
38.00 NZD
Category: History
The gripping story of Australia and New Zealand in the fight for the Aegean - through the eyes of the soldiers. 'We used our knees and our rifle butts and our blades. For a while we stopped being ordinary blokes and became blood-lusted creatures.' March, 1941: 40,000 Australian and New Zealand troops a ...Show more
Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: \
"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life u a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring suc ...Show more
Driving To Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Both the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction 2018, and Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2018. As a young child Diana Wichtel is brought up in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is a Catholic New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The international bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as 'one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives' and 'a master of her art' (Observer). In her new collection, with her trademark blend of wryness, intelligence and wisdo ...Show more
How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief by Megan Devine
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
An illustrated journal for meeting grief with honesty and kindness--honoring loss, rather than packing it away With her breakout book It's OK That You're Not OK, Megan Devine struck a chord with thousands of readers through her honest, validating approach to grief. In her same direct, no-platitudes styl ...Show more
The Queen's Wife by Joanne Drayton
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A modern love story: whakapapa, archaeology, art and heartbreak. A memoir of a turbulent time — and a chess game that broke all the rules. In 1989, two married women met by chance. They instantly hit it off, but little did they know that their new relationship would turn their lives upside-down. This is ...Show more
Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story by Lynda Topp, Jools Topp
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars, with their own unique brand of original country music and comedy that has captivated audiences in New Zealand and overseas for over 40 years. Jools and Lynda Topp aka The Topp Twins tell this sto ...Show more