The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Ch�teau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 19 ...Show more
The Orwell Tour - Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell by Oliver Lewis
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote. Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell.Over three years he trav ...Show more
ER Nurses by James Patterson
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
In this extraordinary work of non-fiction, we hear the unforgettable stories of everyday heroes who look after our families, our friends and ourselves in the most challenging circumstances imaginable Around the clock, ER nurses dedicate their lives to helping us when we need it most. This book puts name ...Show more
The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year by Tim Ecott
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
'In this excellent book, Ecott's evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place.' - PAUL THEROUXFollowing the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of 'slow life' on the 18 remote, mysterious islands which make up the Faroes in the North Atlantic. Clo ...Show more
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? by Horace Greasley; Ken Scott
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
An incredible true tale of one man's courage and defiance of the German nation in the name of love Horace "Jim" Greasley was 20 years old in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British go ...Show more
Drone Warrior : An Elite Soldier's Inside Account of the Hunt for America's Most Dangerous Enemies by Christopher S. Brett; Stewart Velicovich
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
A former special operations member takes us inside America’s covert drone war in this headline-making, never-before-told account for fans of Zero Dark Thirty and Lone Survivor, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal writer and filled with eye-opening and sure to be controversial details. ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: England's Medieval Queens
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the high middle ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this grippi ...Show more
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball
$54.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as they continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were three world-renowned physicists: Max Planck, p ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not ...Show more
King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoise Mac Sweeney
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Many of us assume Western Civilization derives from a cultural inheritance that stretches back to classical antiquity, a golden thread that binds us from Plato to NATO. But what if all this is wrong? What if the Western world does not have its ultimate origins in a single cultural bloodline but rather a ...Show more
The Power and the Story - The Global Battle for News and Information by John Lloyd
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
In this sweeping global survey, one of Britain's most distinguished journalists and media commentators analyses for the first time the state of journalism worldwide as it enters the post-truth age. From the decline of the newspaper in the West and the simultaneous threats posed by fake news and Presiden ...Show more