Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
The Handshake - A Gripping History by Ella Al-Shamahi
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history. So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and ...Show more
Civilisations by Laurent Binet
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A stunningly ambitious and entertaining novel that gives us a counter-factual history of the modern world, from the author of the international bestseller HHhH.A stunningly ambitious and entertaining novel that gives us a counter-factual history of the modern world, from the author of the international ...Show more
Poor People With Money - A Novel by Dominic Hoey
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and ...Show more
Landed by Sue McCauley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Other Halves (1982) which won both the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and sold more than 20,000 copies. It’s the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The f ...Show more
My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves by Kristin Chenoweth, Kathy Najimy, Linda Perry, Chely Wright, Lauren Blitzer
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves—including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie Feldstein, Cynthia Erivo, and Billie Jean King, among ...Show more
Notebook : The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (Slimline Foiled) by FLAME TREE STUDIO
$23.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Notebooks Ser.
New title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect as a gift, or an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, and poets. A FLAME TREE ...Show more
Wild Coasts: Exploring Aotearoa's Marine Reserves by Ned Barraud
$21.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A fascinating exploration of some of Aotearoa's marine reserves. Aotearoa is renowned for its wild coasts, but after decades of overfishing, many of these marine ecosystems are under serious threat. A crucial response to this has been the creation of 44 marine reserves around our shores, and this book ...Show more
The Book of Feeling Blue - Understand & Manage Depression by Gwendoline Smith
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author of The Book of Overthinking, Gwendoline Smith explains what's going on when you're feeling down, describes depression in all its forms, and offers advice on how best to sort your life when you feel like this. How do you know if you're just feeling a bit sad or if you are depressed? Wh ...Show more
Downfall - The Destruction of Charles Mackay by Paul Diamond
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
1920 New Zealanders were shocked by the news that the brilliant, well-connected mayor of genteel Whanganui had shot a young gay poet, D'Arcy Cresswell, who he thought was blackmailing him. They were then riveted by the trial that followed.Mackay was sentenced to hard labour and later left the country, o ...Show more
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham
$36.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'Stunning - fresh brave and unique' Damian le Bas, author of The Stopping Places From the lagoons of Mexico to Arctic glaciers, grey whale mothers are swimming with their calves, past predatory orcas, through a warming sea. For ten thousand miles, they endure one of the longest mammalian migrations on ...Show more
The Reactor: A Book about Grief and Repair by Nick Blackburn
$33.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.'-Helen Macdonald 'Beautiful, strange and completely compelling.'-Olivia Laing 'I read it with awe and sorrow.'-Fatima Bhutto I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up ...Show more