Imperial Island - A History of Empire in Modern Britain by Charlotte Lydia Riley
40.00 NZD
Category: History
'Incisive, important, and incredibly timely' CAROLINE ELKINS, author of Legacy of ViolenceThis riveting new history tells the story of Britain's journey from imperial power to a nation divided.After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire ca ...Show more
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
42.00 NZD
Category: History
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
35.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
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
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Donna ...Show more
The Farm Table: A Cookbook by Julius Roberts
65.00 NZD
Category: Food & Drink
The first book from TV chef and farmer, Julius Roberts. Offering simple, rustic seasonal recipes and stories from his Dorset small-holding, The Farm Table will appeal to buyers of Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Dairies (294k TCM), The Naked Chef and Jamie at Home, and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's River Cot ...Show more
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
"I lost sleep. I retraced my steps but sleep wasn’t following me. It had broken free and I was wandering through the night without it. The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t. What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the bi ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Design - Be Inspired to Plan, Build, and Plant Your Perfect Outdoor Space by Chris Young (Editor-In-Chief)
75.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
Do you long to create the garden of your dreams? Turn ideas into reality with this brand new edition of the classic design bible.Whatever the size of your garden space, and whether starting with a blank canvas or renewing an existing garden, this in-depth manual offers fresh, achievable ideas.Produced t ...Show more
Edible Economics - A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha ...Show more
The Second World War: An Illustrated History by James Holland
70.00 NZD
Category: History
The Second World War is brought to life with captivating colour and detail, in this illustrated history from renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith BurnsFrom the internationally acclaimed historian James Holland comes an enthralling and illuminating account of the key battles an ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
16.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI by Lindsey Fitzharris
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war's new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thous ...Show more