Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels. Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refu ...Show more
Hold my Hand, Rosie. Don't Let Go: A mother-and-daughter story of addiction, despair, and hope by Madeline & Rosie Redding
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Rosie is a shy young teenager when she starts experimenting with alcohol. When Rosie’s parents finally realise that their beloved daughter is having problems with her drinking, Rosie is firmly in the grip of alcoholism. What follows is the true story of a family’s battle over ten years to find help for ...Show more
Hooking Up 1st Edition by Tom Wolfe
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A perfect introduction to Tom Wolfe's brilliant and masterful journalism.In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience a ...Show more
House of Bush, House of Saud by Sam Taylor
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The bestselling history of the rise of modern terrorism prompted by the Saudi royal family's entanglement with the Bush family. Updated paperback edition.
How To Change Everything by Naomi Klein
$10.50 NZD
$21.00 (50% off)
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The most authoritative book yet about climate change for teenagers, written by internationally bestselling expert Naomi Klein. Warming seas. Superstorms. Fires in the Amazon. The effects of climate change are all around us. Reforestation. School-strikes for climate change. Young people are saving the wo ...Show more
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance by Paul Mason
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offer ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (#1) by Maya Angelou
$27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Maya Angelou becomes a Virago Modern Classics author, with brand-new jackets and a major campaign for her seven volumes of memoir, starting with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSThe international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a ...Show more
I Used to Know That: - Stuff You Forgot From School by Caroline Taggart
$19.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: I Used to Know That ... | Reading Level: very good
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days. Now available in paperback, this great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series, and ...Show more
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels'D. J. TAYL ...Show more
Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$32.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and ...Show more
Into the White: Scott's Antarctic Odyssey by Joanna Grochowicz
$23.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Together, they have taken on the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success; never giving up, and never giving up on each other. This is the story of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica and the memorable characters, who with a band of shaggy ponies and savage dogs ...Show more