Guinness World Records 2024 by Guinness World Records
$49.99 NZD
$54.99 (9% off)
Category: General Non-Fiction
This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. And with lockdowns and quarantines gradually becoming a distant memory for much of the world, the claims have been flooding in! · Take the plunge with our opening BLUE PLANET chapter, celebrating wate ...Show more
The Book Collector - Reading and Living with Literature by Tony Eyre
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Book Collector is a fascinating bibliomemoir of the writer’s lifetime joy of reading, the books and authors that have touched him, and how they have shaped his passion for book collecting. Step into his library, where the book is ‘a tangible object of sentiment and delight’ and experience his fondn ...Show more
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes ...Show more
Will You Read This, Please? Living with mental illness - extraordinary stories from ordinary people by Edited by Joanna Cannon
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
'Some people who deal with mental illness have the opportunity and ability to write about it, but many do not - and it was those people, those unread stories, I wanted to find' JOANNA CANNON How do we give a voice to those who so often remain unheard? Will You Read This, Please is a frank and impactful ...Show more
Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World by Naomi S. Baron
$40.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon introduced its first Kindle. Three years later, App ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers by John Seymour
$70.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The bestselling classic guide to a more sustainable way of life from the fatherEmbrace off-grid green living and imagine a more sustainable future with the original guide to self-sufficiency. For over 40 years, John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more eco-friendly choices with his advice on livi ...Show more
Everything I Know About Books: An insider look at publishing in aotearoa by Edited by Odessa Owens and Theresa Crewdson
$34.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A wide range of publishers, illustrators, poets, publicists, designers and award-winning authors such as Ashleigh Young, Anahera Gildea, Michael Bennett, Paula Morris, Selina Tusitala Marsh discuss their writing. Covering a blend of genres, including advice, poems, listicles, creative insights, graphi ...Show more
Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribun ...Show more
My Will Wishes - Easing the Pressure on Loved Ones Through Productive Planning by Anna Mellalieu
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This book is possibly one of the most considerate, mindful and beneficial items you will leave behind. It enables you to document your wishes, preferences, memoires and more, in your own particular way. As we know, death is inevitable and planning a funeral, to honour someone you love, can often come wi ...Show more
Calendar Boy by Austin Mitchell
$69.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
These are the highly controversial memoirs of Austin Mitchell, local TV star of the 1970s and MP for Great Grimsby. Austin was the poster boy for Calendar TV at a time when local television had a much greater impact than national TV and its stars were the celebrities of the day. Austin charts his caree ...Show more