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
Houseplants and Design: A New Zealand Guide by Liz Carlson
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Houseplants have never been hotter. They have the power to instantly turn a house into a home and to create a feeling of peace and calm, transforming both your physical space and your headspace.Bringing nature inside is a simple way to maintain a connection to the outdoors. To nurture an indoor garden i ...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 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
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
Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...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
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more
Notes From A Big Country: Journey Into the American Dream by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al.and returned to li ...Show more
Heroes by Stephen Fry
37.00 NZD
Category: Fairytales, Myths and Legends
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more
The Great Cave Rescue by James Massola
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The complete story of the miraculous rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team boys and their coach in Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand in July 2018. Keen to go exploring after soccer practice, the boys of the Wild Boars soccer team ignored the sign at the cave entrance warning visitors not to enter duri ...Show more
Faber & Faber - The Untold Story by Toby Faber
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
To celebrate its 90th anniversary, here is the untold story behind one of one of the world's most iconic publishing houses. Faber and Faber is one of the world's greatest independent publishers. Literary superstars like T.S.Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath are synonymous with the nam ...Show more