Sons For The Return Home (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$15.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
The Smallest Lights in the Universe - A Memoir by Sara Seager
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In this luminous memoir, an MIT astrophysicist must reinvent herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth. "Sara Seager's exploration of outer and inner space makes for a stunningly original memoir."--Abraham V ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Unexplained Deaths - The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. That is, until Frances Glessner Lee.Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962), born a socialite to a wea ...Show more
John Illsley - My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The first - and only - inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history, as told by bassist and founder member John Illsley, with a foreword by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and sold hundreds of millions of records. Throughout the eighties they were one of t ...Show more
A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell PhD
$35.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A "beautifully written" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system. If you think sexism thrives only on ...Show more
Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore
$35.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary unt ...Show more
To Be Fair - Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humour, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in th ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
Love in the Blitz - A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced ... Splendid' William Boyd, Guardian 'Eileen is a ...Show more
Helen Kelly - Her Life by Rebecca Macfie
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography
When Helen Kelly died on a Wellington spring night in October 2016, with her partner by her side and a bunch of peonies, the first of the season, by her bed, Aotearoa New Zealand lost an extraordinary leader. Kelly was the first female head of the country’s trade union movement, but she was also much mo ...Show more
How to Fake Being Tidy: And Other Things My Mother Never Taught Me by Fenella Souter
$32.99 NZD
Category: Lifestyle
Funny true stories about the everyday dramas that can make or break friendships, cooking, housekeeping and the domestic chaos that always threatens to get the upper hand, written in the tradition of Nora Ephron. 'A glorious account of how the little things of life are, of course, the big things' - Richa ...Show more