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The Queen by A. N. Wilson
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous critical and commercial success, turns his clear eye to our own Queen, Elizabeth II, as she turns 90. In this unusual and vibrant examination of the life and times of Britain's most iconic living f ...Show more
The Secrets of Art: Uncovering the mysteries and messages of great works of art by Debra N. Mancoff
45.00 NZD
Category: Art History
The Secrets of Art offers a fresh encounter with familiar works of art, revealing untold stories, hidden meanings and surprising revelations hidden beneath the surface. Discover the secrets, mysteries, hidden meanings and stories behind famous works of art. A book full of surprises, discoveries, forgott ...Show more
The Seventy Architectural Wonders of Our World by N. Parkyn
97.00 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
In this volume, an international team of architectures, engineers and architectural historians chart the progress of human ingenuity and creativity in erecting buildings, from AD500 to the 21st century. Hardback
The Stone Sky (#3 The Broken Earth) by N. K. Jemisin
24.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Broken Earth Trilogy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016, and The Obelisk Gate, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2017. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel ...Show more
The Tabitha Stories by A.N. Wilson
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
This picture book has five stories about Tabitha, a beautiful tabby kitten. To Tabitha, the world is full of mysteries - the strange
The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A soaring novel of resilience, hope, strength and tenderness, The Taliban Cricket Club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, even the power of tyrants. Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to the infamous Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to face i ...Show more
The Turbulent Sea - Passage to a New World by Charles N. Li
40.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A young teen escapes to America from Mao's China in the early 60s and experiences the consequent culture shock of cruel racism, financial hardships, unexpected freedom, bewildering sexual mores, and the aching rejection and loneliness that so many immigrants face. Swept up in the 1960s antiwar movement ...Show more
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
85.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. Here are the poor and obscure as well as the lofty and famous - each in the very act of creating the Victorian age. Hardb ...Show more
The Victorians by A.N. Wilson
85.00 NZD
Category: History
We live in the world which the Victorians created. The 'global village' is a Victorian village. Their two great inventions go hand in hand: industrial capitalism, and imperialism. Historians in the past have tended to describe these two great facts in ideological, rather than in personal terms. A. N. Wi ...Show more
The Victorians by A. N. Wilson
34.95 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
People, not abstract ideas, make history and in this volume A.N. Wilson has pieced together hundreds of different lives to tell a story - one that is still unfinished in our own day. The "global village" is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with t ...Show more
The Voyages of Sindbad by N.J. Dawood
9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Seven voyages. Seven missions. Only one man has survived them. A poor man meets a great sailor and asks to hear his tale. He is amazed to be told of seven journeys to foreign lands, every one ending in shipwreck. As he listens, the traveller describes a flight on a giant bird, battles with foes inc ...Show more
The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin
37.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy
Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts "a glorious fantasy" (Neil Gaiman) - a story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City, in the final book of the Great Cities Duology. Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embod ...Show more