Unprepared - America in the Time of Coronavirus by Jon Sternfeld
$23.50 NZD
$47.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
An essential volume. -E. J. Dionne, Jr. * A damning portrait -Publishers Weekly With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Timothy Egan, the riveting, eye-opening first-draft history of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unprepared is the sweeping history of the Covid-19 pandemic-a raw, primary-source ac ...Show more
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
$18.50 NZD
$37.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A groundbreaking collection of abolitionist writing from throughout the history of American slaveryFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade to the ambiguity of the reconstruction era, resistance and protest writing were a central part of slavery in America, and - ultimately - played a crucial ...Show more
Vienna Behind the Facades - A Personal Journey by Jennifer Haworth
$42.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. If you think you know Vienna, think again. Vienna: Behind the facades - a personal journey is the story of Jenny Haworth's life-long love affair with Vienna, a personal memoir that pulls back the curtain and reveals the secrets of a city that once considered itself the centre of the world. ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Norman - New Zealand's Lost Leader by Denis Welch
$40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a visionary government with a clear moral purpose. His work also defined New Zealand as a progressive small state with a deep internationalism which became central to our national identity. When he died, we ...Show more
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks by Ilham Tohti
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated--whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date--is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of a we ...Show more
When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
How to find tranquillity in your life, from the author of the million-copy internationally-bestselling The Things You Can See Only When You Slow DownEvery person's life is a journey toward themselves.The School for Broken Hearts, founded by bestselling mega-monk Haemin Sunim, provides a safe and caring ...Show more
When We Were Three - The Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott 1925-1935 by Glenway Wescott (Photographer); Anatole Pohorilenko (Text by); James Crump (Text by); George Platt Lyons (Photographer); Monroe Wheeler (Photographer)
$85.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"The travel albums of photographer George Platt Lynes, publisher Monroe Wheeler, and writer Glenway Wescott are illuminating documents of the American expatriate years. Together, this extraordinary menage-a-trois spent the heady inter-war period frequenting Paris, Villefranche-sur-Mer, and other Europea ...Show more
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Thirty-six essays by Calvino on his personal classics: the writers, poets and scientists who meant most to him at various stages of his life. His pieces range from antiquity (Homer and Ovid), through early modern and Enlightenment Europe, such as (Defoe), to American mentors (Hemingway).
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading their paintbrushes and pens for the weapons of wa ...Show more
Young Bloomsbury the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'Entirely original and thrilling . . . this is Gatsby made real' JULIET NICOLSON'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYESIn the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to invigorate the Bloomsbury Group - creative young people who tantalised the original 'Bloomsberries' with ...Show more