Kew's Global Kitchen Cookbook by Carolyn Fry
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Kew's Global Kitchen Cookbook is a visual celebration of the amazing variety of edible plants and how we can use them. The range of edible plants is far broader than we may suppose, with huge variety, from all corners of the world, and continually changing in how they are used and perceived. Some now re ...Show more
The Arrival - Hardback by Shaun Tan
$40.00 NZD
$46.00 (13% off)
Category: Non Fiction - general
"Tan's lovingly laid out and masterfully rendered tale about the immigrant experience is a documentary magically told." -- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus "An absolute wonder." -- Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis "A magical river of strangers and their stories " -- Craig Thompson, author of Blan ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
$35.00 NZD
$36.00 (2% off)
Category: Non Fiction - general | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Words of Wisdom: Inspiring Insights of the Great Philosophers by Gareth Southwell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
Words of Wisdom is an anthology of history's most memorable, uplifting or thought-provoking quotations from the greatest philosophers who have ever lived. Each of the 350 quotations is accompanied by a brief essay that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the qu ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri ...Show more
To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid per ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by HUNTER DAVIES (ed)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction - general | Reading Level: General Adult
A gripping true story of human endurance and the resilience of one remarkable individual during WWII from Laura Hillenbrand (author of 'Seabiscuit'). On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and str ...Show more