How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A behind-the-scenes tour for booklovers everywhere.
Making Space - A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture by Elizabeth Cox (Editor)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Overlooked, underpaid, and often undermined, New Zealand women architects have faced decades of struggle to maintain a position in a male-dominated profession yet their work has been both important and of significance. This groundbreaking new book tells the story of their contribution to the creativity, ...Show more
The Art of War: Popular Penguins by Sun Tzu
$15.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Biggest Thing of All by Kathryn Thurman
$17.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Ideal for children aged 7-9 years, this book helps children come to terms with the death of a loved one and better understand the grief they're feeling. Lily loves helping Grandma and Grandpa in their garden where they plant, prune and talk about everything. One day, Grandpa tells her that everything is ...Show more
Eight Days in May - How Germany's War Ended by Volker Ullrich
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain.Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn betwee ...Show more
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming- ...Show more
If Walls Could Speak by Moshe Safdie
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
One of the world's greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built, and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society.
Swamp Songs - Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands by Tom Blass
$42.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Oozing with bad airs, boggarts and other spirits, the world's marshes and swamps are often seen as sinister, permanently twilit - and only partly of this earth. For centuries, they - and their inhabitants - have been the object of our distrust. We have tried to drain away their demons and tame them, des ...Show more
Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women by The Big Issue, Jane Graham
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From The Big Issue's popular section, this collection features 50 remarkable women writing letters to their younger selves. If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Letter to My Younger Self is back with another incredible selection of letters from well-known figures. In this ...Show more
Pruning Fruit Trees - A Beginner's Guide by Kath Irvine
$27.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Pruning Fruit Trees: A Beginners Guide is here to unbundle the complicated world of pruning and provide step-by-step instructions to beginners. Calm trees is the overall aim. A less is more approach to cutting with a focus on training as well as pruning. This doesn’t mean wild, woolly things that need l ...Show more
Why Read: Selected Writings, 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
$36.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by the Guardian, Will Self's Why ...Show more
Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans
$79.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop of the century that shaped him. Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his rich ...Show more