The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
Love in the Blitz - A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced ... Splendid' William Boyd, Guardian 'Eileen is a ...Show more
Helen Kelly - Her Life by Rebecca Macfie
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the country’s trade union movement, but she was also much mo ...Show more
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In My Mind's Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings. From her home in the North West of Wale ...Show more
How to Fake Being Tidy: And Other Things My Mother Never Taught Me by Fenella Souter
$32.99 NZD
Category: Lifestyle
Funny true stories about the everyday dramas that can make or break friendships, cooking, housekeeping and the domestic chaos that always threatens to get the upper hand, written in the tradition of Nora Ephron. 'A glorious account of how the little things of life are, of course, the big things' - Richa ...Show more
JFK Volume One 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'A powerful, provocative, and above all compelling book' Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Soul of America The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth p ...Show more
Art of Conversation - Literary by Howland Louise
$19.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life | Series: TAOC
Now, there's a new way for readers to discuss their passions, with the release of a new game, The Art of Conversation: Literary Edition. Following the success of their original games, creators Louise Howland and Keith Lamb have adapted the concept to offer new angles and avenues to think, and talk, abou ...Show more
This Is Not How It Ends - How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? Th ...Show more
The Captain's Run: What It Takes to Lead the All Blacks by Gregor Paul
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
How the captains of the last 50 years have gone about leading the world's most successful rugby team. The job of All Blacks captain comes with a scrutiny that puts it alongside the prime minister in terms of profile and public expectation. It takes a strong, confident and assured personality to captain ...Show more
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
$28.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wr ...Show more
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
$23.99 NZD
Category: Culture & Life
Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first work of non-fiction is a searing, emotionally wrenching account of her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy. 'It is remarkable for me to remember now that I thought it would be possible t ...Show more
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world--and in the process created modern environmentalism. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the ...Show more