The Handover by David Runciman
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier by Doug Gold
38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The true story of an escaped soldier hiding out in the house of a Greek dressmaker who is secretly a resistance fighter. It's an epic love story against the odds, set during the Nazi occupation of Greece in WW2. Peter Blunden, a New Zealand soldier captured in Crete, jumps from a train and escapes from ...Show more
The Joy Thief: How OCD Steals Your Happiness – And How To Get It Back by Penny Moodie
38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A personal and practical guide to navigating the complex world of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). When Penny Moodie hears people say that they're 'a bit OCD' about cleaning or tidying, she can't help but feel frustrated. It took her twenty-three years to be diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disor ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love ‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here ‘Quietly profound … belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild’ New York Times Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary m ...Show more
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker
43.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
'A joyful canter through the Marches.' TLSA funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline.There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; the other England, crucible of the mo ...Show more
Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood
38.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time an ...Show more
Dust: The Story of the Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. - Robert Macfarlane Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left ...Show more
ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS EMMA WATKINS DUCHESS OF RUTLAND by Duchess of Emma Manners Rutland
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' - Lynn Barber, Daily TelegraphWhen Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her mother's footsteps to marry a farmer of her own. But then she fell in love with Da ...Show more
The Law of Attraction: The Power of Thought to Manifest Your Best Life by William Walker Atkinson
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The original guide to manifesting! The full original text, revised for the 21st century!In this timeless classic, William Walker Atkinson introduces the paradigm shifting concept of The Law of Attraction. This "one great law" governs the universe and the world we experience. It simply states that whatev ...Show more
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of 2022 Winner of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award 2022 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson 'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' - The Time Original, ...Show more
The Art of Winning: 10 Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential by Dan Carter
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A unique and inspiring deep dive into leadership, strength and resilience from one of sport's true masters: All Black legend Dan Carter. Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. You might think success at t ...Show more