Marching Powder by Rusty Young
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: good
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that i ...Show more
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama by Nelson Mandela
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
2018 is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book . . . humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the dra ...Show more
Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any ...Show more
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. They came from every corner of Britain and its Empir ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
$28.00 NZD
$31.00 (9% off)
Category: Non Fiction - general
At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outs ...Show more
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
$30.00 NZD
$31.00 (3% off)
Category: Non Fiction - general
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the ...Show more
How to be A Parisian Wherever You are by Anne Berest; Audrey Diwan; Caroline De Maigret; Sophie Mas
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
From four stunning and accomplished French women -- at last -- a fresh and spirited take on what it really means to be a Parisienne: how they dress, entertain, have fun and attempt to behave themselves. In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beau ...Show more
Keep Chickens by Barbara Kilarski
$30.00 NZD
$39.99 (24% off)
Category: Non Fiction - general
Do you want to keep chickens but don't have much land? In this comprehensive and entertaining handbook, Barbara Kilarski shows you how you can successfully keep chickens in small urban and suburban spaces. She tells you which breeds are happiest in small spaces, shows you how to feed and care for your b ...Show more
The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East by Robert Fisk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. During the thirty years that award-winning journalist Robert Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East, he has covered every major event in the region, from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the American hostage crisis in Beirut (as one of only two Western journalists i ...Show more
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses q ...Show more