Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38 by Chips Channon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Political
The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonishing achievement. By turns frivolous and profound.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Wickedly entertaining.' Andrew Marr, New Statesman 'An irresistible, saucy read . . . One ...Show more
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A ...Show more
The Chief - The Life of Lord Northcliffe by Andrew Roberts
$28.99 NZD
Category: Political
'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and very readable' Andrew Lycett, Spectator 'Energetic and hugely entertaining' A.N.Wilson, TLS A definitive and compelling biography of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), the greatest pr ...Show more
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
$39.99 NZD
Category: Political
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
How to Be a Refugee - One Family's Story of Exile and Belonging by Simon May
$24.99 NZD
Category: Political
'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review' Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, o ...Show more
Party Hopper by Peter McCardle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Political
“I’ve found over the many years that, when elections come along, I just sit still at my Beehive desk, buy a coffee, the people around me all change, and I just carry on.” This is the story of Peter McCardle’s journey through the last thirty years in New Zealand politics. Beginning as a National MP, then ...Show more
The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Political
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
I Know This to Be True - Jacinda Ardern on Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Jacinda Ardern
$20.00 NZD
Category: Political | Reading Level: near fine
'I Know This to Be True' is a global five-year project founded on original interviews to inspire a new generation of leaders. Truth, wisdom, inspiration and what really matters for the most inspiring leaders of our time. Politician, feminist and champion for social equality, Jacinda Ardern epitomizes th ...Show more
The Girl from Revolution Road by Ghazaleh Golbakhsh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Political | Reading Level: very good
A young first-generation Iranian immigrant in New Zealand speaks powerfully of displacement, being different and living between two worlds. Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh's experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trau ...Show more
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
$24.00 NZD
Category: Political
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
$28.00 NZD
Category: Political
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of ...Show more
Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography by Blanche d'Alpuget
$69.99 NZD
Category: Political
To mark Bob Hawke's extraordinary life and legacy, this master work brings together the story of the man in full in a definitive hardback commemorative biography. Bob Hawke began life as a good Christian boy from a teetotal family, became a wild, drinking, womanising student, a Rhodes Scholar, a cha ...Show more