Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: Bryson Ser.
"Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northe ...Show more
Simple Wholefoods by Sophie Steevens
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
With simplicity, nutritious goodness and bold flavours in mind Sophie Steevens shares 100 new, moreish recipes in Simple Wholefoods. Plant-based, gluten-free and refined sugar-free, these modern, family-friendly recipes all use ingredients as close to their natural state as possible. As well as new scru ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries brings together Kate's rich and detailed knowledge of unheard and under-heard women's history, and of how and why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books. This beautiful illustrated book is both an alternative feminist history of ...Show more
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI by Lindsey Fitzharris
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz; Malaina Kapoor
42.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, p ...Show more
Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us' The New York TimesDo you think in pictures, patterns or words?In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us who with a visual brain can often be o ...Show more
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
This major new work from the international bestselling author of Gifts of Imperfection and Dare to Lead examines the 87 emotions and experiences that define us, and provides a compelling framework to help us all become more emotionally fluent and connected. In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Time ...Show more
The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
An unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise in 21st-century America Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of learning as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
25.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more