The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cur ...Show more
There Was a Time by Dorothy Butler
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A autobiographical memoir of the childhood of the international award winning children's book author, leading authority on children's reading, and novelist. She was born in 1925 and brought up in a large working class family. Her focus was books and reading from an early age, and leading a full life in ...Show more
These Precious Days - Essays by Ann Patchett
$46.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see ...Show more
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut by Marcus Du Sautoy
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
How do you remember more and forget less?How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house?And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently?This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut. Mathematics is full of better ways of thinking, and with over 2,000 years of knowledge to draw on ...Show more
This Changes Everything: The Honest Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause by Niki Bezzant
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
The must-have guide to perimenopause and menopause for every woman- What's happening, what you can do, and what really works.'This book covers everything. No snake oil, no sugar-coating and, above all, a celebration of the greatest change a woman will go through after puberty. Wish I'd read it at 30, 40 ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Did you know: women are 59% more likely than men to receive an incorrect diagnosis when experiencing heart attack. Or: women are more susceptible to pain medications than men, leading to higher rates of addiction because doctors simply prescribe pain medication in the same way. Or: among alcoholics, wom ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult) | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
Tightrope by Marsh Selina Tusitala
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Built around the abyss, the tightrope, and the trick that we all have to perform to walk across it, Pasifika poetry warrior Selina Tusitala Marsh brings to life in Tightrope her ongoing dialogue with memory, life and death to find out whether 'stories' really can 'cure the incurable'. In Marsh's poetry, ...Show more
Tikanga - An introduction to te Ao Maori by Keri Opai
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
An introduction to te ao Māori. The guide to understanding the Māori world from a 21st century point of view. The book we’ve all been needing for decades – a unique explanation of the world of Māoridom for Pakehā, and all others disconnected from the Māori world. Told with simple lucidity and great expe ...Show more
Toby Curtis Unfinished Business: Ki Hea Apopo by Sir Toby Curtis
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Born into poverty in 1939, Toby Curtis rose to the peak of achievement in Maoridom. His long history of leadership in education, broadcasting and the powerful Te Arawa confederation of iwi belied the challenges he had to overcome, and the legacy of colonisation that still overshadow the fields in which ...Show more
Towards a Grammar of Race In Aotearoa New Zealand by Anisha Sankar (ed.); Lana Lopesi (ed.); Arcia Tecun (ed.)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. ...Show more