Katherine Mansfield's Europe - Station to Station by Redmer Yska
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfield's Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfield's journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the pla ...Show more
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a uni ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians by James Patterson
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title that highlights the magic of books. To be a bookseller or librarian . . . You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of m ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
$40.00 NZD
Category: War / Military History
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liberat ...Show more
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Damien Lewis
$28.00 NZD
Category: War / Military History
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard. So Britain's wartime leader called for the lightning development of a completel ...Show more
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe by Julia John; Fox Guy
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending j ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values. From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend- a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the Engl ...Show more
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter [A Sunday Times Bestseller] by Josef Lewkowicz
$30.00 NZD
Category: War / Military History
An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone, The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man's endurance and his determination to not only survive the Holocaust but to bring to justice those who perpetra ...Show more
Operation Postern by Ian Howie-Willis
$38.00 NZD
Category: War / Military History
Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian soldiers retook the town against fierce resistance. Defeated, and after suffering huge losses, 8000 Japanese soldiers fled across the formidable 4000-metre mountains behin ...Show more