A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
$65.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
'This brilliant and heartbreaking book is a masterpiece. It reads like a novel, yet is all sadly true. I finished it in tears' - James Rebanks. A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years ...Show more
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the Forgotten Holocaust by Otto Rosenberg
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and businesses to live in forced encampments outside the city. One by one, families are ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
A Pipeline Runs Through It: Oil, Sovereignty and Politics to 1914 by Keith Fisher
$95.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
The origin story of our modern oil age. A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, comprehensive in-depth look at the social, economic, political and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to ...Show more
African and Caribbean People in Britain - A History by Hakim Adi
$45.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE A major new history of Britain that transforms our understanding of this country's past 'I've waited so long so read a comprehensively researched book about Black history on this island. This is it: a journey of discovery and a truly exciting and important work ...Show more
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
$44.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime Spanning the 1930s to present day, After Agatha charts the explosion in women's crime writing and ...Show more
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A literary reimagining of some of history's greatest queer women. What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. It's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her-the man she has been forced to m ...Show more
Aftermaths: - Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific by Angela Wanhalla (ed.); Lyndall Ryan (ed.); Camille Nurka (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
What we choose to remember and what we choose to forget about the violent past tell us something about the society we live in now. Whether we like it or not, we’re part of each other’s story. So how do we talk about the past? —Joanna Kidman and Vincent O’Malley Aftermaths explores the life-changing inte ...Show more
Alexander the Great - The Making of a Myth by British Library Staff (Contribution by); Richard Stoneman (Editor)
$116.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Accompanying the British Library's exhibit, the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20, as king of the ...Show more
Always Remember Your Name: The Children who Survived Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
$32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank's Diary left off and gives voice to the children we lost. On 28 March 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their au ...Show more
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
"An elegant, meticulously researched, and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift."-Jake Halpern, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author"With her usual eye for detail and knack for ...Show more