If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Entertainment
In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on the planet. His name, sadly, was not Jeremy Clarkson, but we might not have been any more surprised if it had been. Because the world seems to have taken a decidedl ...Show more
Kim Workman - Journey towards justice by Kim Workman
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Kim Workman is a central figure in the ongoing discussion of justice and prison policy in New Zealand. This memoir presents his rich narrative of a life lived through periods of personal and political change and upheaval. It tells his remarkable story: from early years growing up in the Wairarapa to wor ...Show more
Unstoppable: My Life So Far by Maria Sharapova
$28.00 NZD
Category: Entertainment
To understand my determination, you need to know who I am, where I come from, what happened. You need to know about me and my father and the flight from Russia in the dead of night when I was six. You need to know the crazy story. In other words, you need to know everything . . . 'In the middle of the n ...Show more
Collecting the World - The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physici ...Show more
The Choice by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah
$26.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Chinese Cinderella | Reading Level: very good
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother ...Show more
Reveal: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath
$36.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment
It's a diary of a very modern entertainer and his ever-changing thoughts, the story of somebody who escaped Butlins, and the tale of a pop star trying to find his feet again after coming out of early retirement. It's true, and funny, and occasionally sad, and well-written, and very entertaining. I hope ...Show more
The Meaning of Michelle by Veronica Chambers
$27.99 NZD
Category: Political
A NEW IN NONFICTION PEOPLE PICK | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Huffington Post • Glamour • Bustle • RedEye A Los Angeles Times bestseller**One of BookRiot's '11 Books to Help Us Make It Through a Trump Presidency'****One of The Guardian's Essentials for Black History Month** “Whenever I think abo ...Show more
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú
$35.00 NZD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
"A must-read for anyone who thinks "build a wall" is the answer to anything." --Esquire For Francisco Cant , the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cant joins the B ...Show more
Petals & Bullets by Mark Derby
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ
It was bright moonlight – good bombing light – and once we had to stop and put out our lights as a Fascist aeroplane flew over. They usually come swooping down with guns firing at cars, especially ambulances. Finally we arrived at a town among the hills about 12.30 p.m. Here there is a hospital of about ...Show more
No Cunning Plan by Sir Tony Robinson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over fifty years. Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver!, a pint-sized pickpocket desperately bleaching ...Show more
Mansfield and Me - A Graphic Memoir by Sarah Laing
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: Near Fine
Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand-but she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, 'Oh to be a writer, a real writer.' And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists ...Show more