Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village by Jan Jarboe Russell
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A "riveting and enlightening account" (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady. Hundreds of books have be ...Show more
Dunkirk to D-Day by Jeff Steel
$36.36 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
From Dunkirk, Dieppe and to D-Day, Bill Adlam's war experience reads like fiction. Secret missions, commando raids and the Military Medal – this is a rip-roaring true story of action, military prowess and courage.
Sailing Alone Around The World by Slocum Joshua, Tim Flannery
$28.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
It remains one of the most thrilling and entertaining travel narratives of all time. Slocum writes of dangers and delights in encounters with Moorish pirates and Juan Fernandez islanders, tempests and languid seas, sharks and flying fish. In 1877, eighteen years before Slocum weighed anchor on his 74,00 ...Show more
Wake Me up When It's All Over... by Kate Moore
$27.99 NZD
Category: Lifestyle
In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events. Now in its twelfth year, this new edition of the best-selling series ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$26.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
The Go-Between - A Portrait of Growing up Between Different Worlds by Osman Yousefzada
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one's own - from the renowned fashion designer. A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the t ...Show more
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A Guardian book of the yearA Times book of the yearA Spectator book of the yearA Daily Mail book of the yearAn Evening Standard book of the yearA Stella Magazine book of the year From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kit ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$34.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
Unforgettable : Rugby, dementia and the fight of my life by Steve Thompson
$36.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
Unforgettable is at once a powerful, affecting sports memoir from a true giant of rugby, and a raw call to arms to safeguard the sports we love and all those who play them.
Everest 1922 by Mick Conferey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
The dramatic and compelling account of the first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition in 2022.
Solo - Backcountry Adventures in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to th ...Show more