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
Grand: Becoming my mother's daughter by Noelle McCarthy
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The astonishing debut memoir about mothers and daughters, drinking, birth and loss, running away and homecoming from prize-winning writer and broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. "I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith." —Mammy, just before she died. Funny, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in p ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
$40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
Love in Action, Second Edition: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change by Thich Nhat Hanh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Be inspired by 21 key writings on nonviolence and reconciliation by Vietnamese peace activist and refugee advocate Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh The essence of nonviolence is love, Thich Nhat Hanh says. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent ...Show more
The 6-Minute Work Day - An Entrepreneur's Guide to Using the Power of Leverage to Create Abundance and Freedom by Douglas Vermeeren
$43.79 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Law
You've heard again and again that getting rich means working hard and being willing to put in long hours, often at the expense of everything else in your life. The 6-Minute Work Day is here to dispel that myth.So many financial gurus, business books, and corporate training seminars teach you to hustle, ...Show more
The Times Beginner's Guide to Bridge by Andrew Robson; Times Mind Games Staff (As told to)
$16.99 NZD
Category: Sports, Hobbies, Environment
A one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world's most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge. Previously published as Collins Need to Know? Bridge. N ...Show more
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S Goodman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Business, Economics and Law
From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of reporting and explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world has transformed 21st century life and dangerously destabilised democracy. "A biting, uproarious yet vital and deadly serious acco ...Show more
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
$43.00 NZD
Category: Biography
THE TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of The Irish Times' Books of the Year for 2021 A compelling and comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. This intima ...Show more
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding' Sebastian Barry'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise'Jonathan LethemIn this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn ...Show more
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
$32.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. In 2018, Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” It was from an Eritrean man who had been held in a Libyan detention centre for months. Every ...Show more
The Modern Singhs - A Marriage of Two Cultures by Abbey Singh; Money Singh (As told to)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Abbey and Money Singh are better known as The Modern Singhs, Kiwi social media celebrities with a rich and tangled love story to tell. Shared through the eyes of this inspiring duo, The Modern Singhs reveals their experiences as migrants to New Zealand as they struggled to find footing in new surrou ...Show more