A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A stunning memoir of motherhood and mountaineering by one of Britain's most gifted poets, for readers of H is for Hawk and The Outrun. Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen Mort has always been ...Show more
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Law
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Queen of Our Times - The Life of Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The definitive new biography of Her Majesty The Queen by one of Britain's leading royal authorities. With original insights from those who know her best, unseen papers, new interviews with world leaders and a fresh perspective on the longest reign in British history, Robert Hardman tells the full life s ...Show more
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists by Tracy Walder, Jessica Anya Blau
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs "Reads like the show bible for <i>Homeland</i> only her story is real." —Alison Stewart, WNYC "A thrilling tale...Walder’s fast-paced and intense narrat ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more
The Queen by Matthew Dennison
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty The Queen.'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her childhood ... Quietly, tactfully, tastefully reverent' The TimesFor millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II is the embo ...Show more
Superyacht Captain: Life and leadership in the world's most incredible industry by Brendan O'Shannassy
$32.54 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
'Billionaires are the suns in their unique universe. Their solar system contains planets built of information and access. Like Copernicus' physical sun, they don't seek either- information and access are captured in a gravitational field that circles them.' There are the wealthy listed and described in ...Show more
The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II by Catherine Ryan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The Queen is a timely book with beautiful photos and fascinating details about one of the most famous women of modern times: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning British monarch in history."Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust." --Queen E ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$40.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves. These letters were the starting point for Kate Grenville's bestselling novel A Room Made of Leaves. They inspired the portrait of her imagined Elizabeth Macarthu ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$23.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
$26.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the UniverseOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers t ...Show more