Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
The Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
$59.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Weste ...Show more
A Communist in the Family - Searching for rewi Alley by Sandys Elspeth
$40.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China. Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, A Communist in the Family ...Show more
The Choice by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion
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
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
$24.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: The School of Life
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
$39.99 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: Meaning of Everyday Words
In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for truth.Beginning with 'Alon ...Show more