Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
42.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
The Commanders - The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark
37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more
The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli
37.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
An acclaimed, bestselling novel - a stunning work of political fiction that reads like a thriller, about the rise to power of Putin's notorious spin doctor He was known as the Wizard of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming political advisor to Putin. After he resig ...Show more
Transitions - A Mother's Journey by Élodie Durand; Evan McGorray (Translator)
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
When Anne learns that her 19-year-old is a transgender man, she struggles to understand her son's new identity. A new landmark in nonfiction comics, Transitions is a sympathetic, informative, and moving story of a family's journey to acceptance."I thought I was open-minded... The news of my child's gend ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that w ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not w ...Show more
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
55.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a British newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could ...Show more
The Eloquence of the Sardine: The Secret Life of Fish & Other Underwater Mysteries by Bill Francois
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Humans have identified just a fraction of the 2.2 million species living in the sea. Roughly 91% of all marine species remain unknown: myths still to be written, discoveries still to be made, blank pages with room to dream . . .As a small boy, Bill Fran ois was frightened of deep water. Until a chance e ...Show more
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog - A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell; Anthony McGowan
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: How to Teach Ser.
A fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics, made accessible for non-experts (and dogs) Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they appl ...Show more
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History by Ben Mezrich
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time – Elon Musk – and the company that owns our world’s best hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to t ...Show more