Season of the Witch - The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth
$55.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
1979. Months of industrial action throughout the winter have left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets.After ten brutal homicides and the biggest police hunt in history, the Yorkshire Ripper is still at large and preparing to strike again.Punk has reached its bleak climax ...Show more
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card ...Show more
Everything I Know About Books: An insider look at publishing in aotearoa by Edited by Odessa Owens and Theresa Crewdson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A wide range of publishers, illustrators, poets, publicists, designers and award-winning authors such as Ashleigh Young, Anahera Gildea, Michael Bennett, Paula Morris, Selina Tusitala Marsh discuss their writing. Covering a blend of genres, including advice, poems, listicles, creative insights, graphi ...Show more
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
Wot Knot You Got? Mophead's Guide to Life by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$29.99 NZD
Category: Health and Wellbeing
With her trademark visual wit, our buddy Mophead unravels the knots that keep us up at night. ‘What do you do if nothing is right – not at home, at school, anywhere?’‘What if people don’t like me?’‘What if your own ideas stink?’‘How do I hug my dad?’ One morning, Selina wakes up with a twisting, tang ...Show more
Life Underground: Tunnel into a World of Wildlife by DK
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Burrow down into the world's most amazing underground habitats, from warm Arctic warrens to sandy desert dens. Illustrated in incredible detail, Life Underground explores the different communities of animals and plants that live under the Earth. From the succulent soil of an Australian forest to the ha ...Show more
Quiet Spaces by William Smalley; Edmund de Waal (Foreword by); Harry Crowder (Photographer); Hélène Binet (Photographer)
$110.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An elegant presentation of interiors for introverts, placing the memorable work of London architect William Smalley alongside buildings around the world that have inspired his practice. The interiors in Quiet Spaces were made for private contemplation: calm places in which to read a book, listen to musi ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A biting satire of corporate power and disinformation- how it works, how it harms us and what we can do about itKnowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to deny the scient ...Show more
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Based on two decades of research, the five causes of wars and four ways to stop themIt's easy to overlook that most of the time, war doesn't happen. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only a tiny fraction erupt into violence. With a counterintuitive approach, Blattman reminds ...Show more
The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Marie Antoinette meets Gossip Girl in this supermodern novel of scandal and slander, from the two-time Granta Best Young British Novelist A wild story of female friendship, language and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment- a historical novel like no other. ...Show more
Time Wise: Powerful Habits, More Time, Greater Joy by Amantha Imber
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The instant bestseller from the behavioural scientist behind the #1 ranking Australian business podcast How I Work.'This charming book will save you more time than it takes to read.' Adam Grant'A must-read. This book will transform how you approach your workday.' Greg McKeown'Read this book!' Jake Knapp ...Show more