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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
Birds of New Zealand: Collective Nouns by Melissa Boardman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
A beautifully illustrated book featuring New Zealand Aotearoa's native birds, each with its very own collective noun. A tussock of takahe? A hoon of kaka? A whistling of whio? This beautifully illustrated book of collective noun names for our native birds reveals something unique about their cha ...Show more
My Many Coloured Days by Dr. Seuss
$21.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Some days are yellow. Some are blue. On different days I'm different too. Dr Seuss takes the reader on a journey through the many different moods that can be experienced in life.
How to Walk a Dog (PB) by Mike White; Sharon Murdoch (Illustrator)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Outdoors
The highs and lows, joy and heartache of owning a dog are told in this beautifully written story of life in and around a dog park. 'The book of the year. THE book on dogs. And people.' Andrew Dickens, Newstalk ZB
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer''s Englishwill stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don''t - Dreyer''s English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-n ...Show more
Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. Sentence after sentence stopped me short. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer' - ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Underland. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works. ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
$69.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
Troy by Stephen Fry
$37.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic tale of Troy The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whol ...Show more
Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The prison population has increased from ...Show more
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy - And Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Brilliant Maps: An Atlas for Curious Minds by Ian Wright
$45.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas. Which nations have North Korean embassies? What percentage of young people live with their families? Which country lists volleyball as its national sport? How much does it cost to get a pint around the world? And where can ...Show more
Bill Birch: Minister of Everything by Brad Tattersfield
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Bill Birch was the quiet achiever of New Zealand politics. A trusted lieutenant to Prime Ministers Muldoon, Bolger and Shipley, Birch was at the heart of the action across a turbulent quarter-century of political and social change. From Think Big and the Employment Contracts Act to overhauls of immigrat ...Show more