A Simple Guide to Writing Good Fiction
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Teaches the craft of storytelling, from dialogue and characters to structure and conflict. Includes advice on publishing and submissions. Written in a straightforward manner, complete with simple worksheets. Contents: Introduction Getting Started The Elevator Pitch Research Characters Setting Conflict, ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levinson Wood
$54.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood selects 100 extracts about the most astonishing acts of human endurance, adventure and survival. This collection encompasses classics of the genre and new, diverse voices, from tales of the heroic age of exploration and incredible acts of dering-do, to pione ...Show more
The Tale of Beowulf - Epic Stories, Ancient Traditions by J. K. Jackson (Editor)
$21.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
A foundation stone of European literature, linking Norse, Celtic and Arthurian myth Beowulf is also a terrific read! Beowulf is an epic poem probably written in the 900s CE. It tells of events 600 years before in vivid detail, where the hero Beowulf is entreated to help a king defend his halls against t ...Show more
Endgame (#6 Noughts and Crosses) by Malorie Blackman
$21.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: Noughts and Crosses
The powerful conclusion to iconic author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses - the series that taught a generation to think and act differently. Cross & Nought . . . Years have passed since relationships between Crosses and Noughts were forbidden, but the secret, life-changing l ...Show more
Caste: The Lies That Divide us by Isabel Wilkerson
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hid ...Show more
Shoemaker - Reebok and the Untold Story of a Lancashire Family Who Changed the World by Joe Foster
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports brands, having started from a small factory in Bolton.Since the late 19th century, the Foster family had been hand-making running shoes, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams - later immo ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
Notes From An Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environment ...Show more
How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia
$16.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
How fascist are you? A sharp, provocative conversation-starter about the authoritarian in all of us.
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