After Dark - Walking into the nights of Aotearoa by Annette Lees
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Every 24 hours, the Earth rolls into its own vast shadow and darkness floods across the land and sea. In a 1600-kilometre-long gliding plumb-line down the length of New Zealand, our beaches, towns, cities, farms, forests, lakes and mountains sink into shadow. Annette Lees takes us walking into the night ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$38.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
$43.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
THE TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of The Irish Times' Books of the Year for 2021 A compelling and comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the iconic painters of the twentieth century--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of de Kooning: An American Master. This intima ...Show more
Freedom - A Disease Without Cure by Slavoj Žižek
$44.00 NZD
Category: Social commentary
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exp ...Show more
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
From the premiere Beatles biographer--author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation--a rare and revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unp ...Show more
Going Places : Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand (BWB Texts) by Julie Fry
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Migration and the movement of people is one of the critical issues confronting the world's nations in the twenty-first-century. This book is about the economic contribution of migration to and from New Zealand, one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the debate. Can immigration, in economic ter ...Show more
Imagining Decolonisation (BWB Texts) by Bianca Elkington; Jennie Smeaton; Rebecca Kiddle; Ocean Ripeka Mercier; Mike Ross; Amanda Thomas
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Decolonisation is a term that scares some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and bewildering concept for many New Zealanders yet needed if we are going to build a country that is fair and equal for all who live there. This book sets out the case for decolonisation by illuminating through ...Show more
Mad on Meth - How New Zealand Got Hooked on P by Benedict Collins
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The eye-opening evolution of crystal meth in New Zealand and what can be done about it Only fifty years ago in New Zealand, methamphetamine was a publicly prescribed drug used as widely as by housewives, shift workers, students, and anybody looking to party. Legal for decades, meth was about to undergo ...Show more
Meet You at the Main Divide - A family's story of life on Lake Hawea Station by Geoff Ross; Justine Ross
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Authors of Every Bastard Says No on giving up their city life for a high-country station in Central Otago In Meet You at the Main Divide, innovators, disrupters, and authors of Every Bastard Says No share the challenge of a lifetime: leaving behind their Herne Bay mansion to farm 10,000 merino sheep on ...Show more
Navigating the Stars - Maori Creation Myths by Witi Ihimaera
$45.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history | Reading Level: very good
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama ...Show more
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets by Nicholas Boys Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A new history of London, framed through its Monopoly streets and the colourful stories behind them.