Lonely Planet Kids World's Coolest Jobs
From dinosaur palaeontologist and snake-venom collector to water slide tester, Tower of London Ravenmaster, octopus keeper and panda nanny, discover the most fun, surprising and enjoyable jobs found on planet Earth – and see just how different and amazing the world of work can be. Find out how to be a: Motion capture actor and bring to life monsters, animals...Paperback$1600Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Canada Planning Map
Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet's Canada Planning Map is your conveniently-sized passport to travelling with ease. With this easy-to-use, full colour navigation tool in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of Canada, so begin your journey now! Durable and waterproof Easy-fold format and convenient size Handy slipcase Full...Sheet map, folded$1400Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Kids The Travel Activity Book
Explore over 70 countries and cultures around the world in this globetrotting activity and sticker book. Race camels through the Algerian desert, spot the difference between Bangladeshi rickshaw drivers, unscramble anagrams to name the US presidents on Mount Rushmore, and even perform the haka with the New Zealand rugby team. Your adventure begins on Baffin Island in northern Canada, where...Paperback$1100Elsewhere:$1499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Botswana & Namibia
Lonely Planet's Botswana and Namibia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Spot jackals in Etosha National Park, explore the German colonial town of Luederitz, or marvel at mighty Victoria Falls, all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Botswana and Namibia Travel Guide:...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Kids The Maps Book
Explore the amazing world of maps from the first sketches on cave walls to real-time maps on phones. Discover their incredible history and marvel at ancient maps, war maps, weather maps, and even interactive maps from computer games. Packed with awesome facts, kids will soon grasp how to read maps and symbols, plus learn how to make their own! Wow-factor...Hardback$2100Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Boston
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Boston. Discover Boston's most popular experiences and best-kept secrets, from following the Freedom Trail to see where history unfolded and stargazing with astronomers at the Coit Observatory, to indulging in oysters, clam chowder, and...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Kids The Games on the Go Activity Book
Kick boredom to the curb with this awesome book that's packed with over 100 brilliant brain teasers, puzzles, fill-in drawing challenges, games and activities. This pocket-sized companion provides hours of entertainment for kids and grown-ups alike, whether you're in the car, on a plane or stuck inside on a rainy day. All you need is a pencil! Make long car...Paperback$1400Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Best Day Walks Australia
Stretch your legs away from the city with Lonely Planet's Best Day Walks Australia and discover 60 easy escapes into nature with maps and directions. Lace up your walking boots and experience the freedom of the great outdoors with trails that range from a couple of hours to a full day. Admire endless horizons atop the thigh-thumping peaks of Tasmania;...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Kids The Daredevil's Guide to Outer Space
Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Blast off! Having survived some of the scariest destinations on Earth in The Daredevil's Guide to Dangerous Places, Eddie and Junko are off on another epic adventure - this time to outer space. Join our intergalactic explorers as they travel across our Solar System and beyond. Find out what it's like to live on the...Paperback$1600Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Best Beaches: 100 of the World’s Most Incredible Beaches
Discover 100 of the world's most breathtaking beaches in this inspirational coffee table book that features exquisite photography throughout. From hidden paradises in Thailand to the pink-white sands of Greece's Elafonisi Beach, this guide offers the ultimate collection of extraordinary beaches - perfect for inspiring your next beach adventure. From remote islands to secret coves, urban seasides to sprawling golden...Hardback$4000Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Beijing City Map
From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher, this durable and waterproof map, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, offers the perfect passport to travelling with ease. Lonely Planet Beijing City Map is your conveniently-sized companion for exploring Beijing. Enhance your travel experience with this map, providing not only navigational tools but also images and information about...Sheet map, folded$1100Elsewhere:$1499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet A Moveable Feast
Life-changing food adventures around the world. A Moveable Feast is a collection of traveller's tales set around the world. It transforms the planet into an endless all-you-can-eat buffet for mind, soul, and stomach. Writers include food celebrities Anthony Bourdain, Matt Preston, and Andrew Zimmern. Edited by Don George.Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Africa Planning Map
From Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet's Africa Planning Map helps you explore with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top attractions, itinerary suggestions, and themed lists. With this easy-to-use, full-colour map in your back pocket,...Sheet map, folded$1100Elsewhere:$1499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Florence City Map
Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet's Florence City Map is your conveniently sized passport to travelling with ease. Get more from your map and your trip with images and information about top city attractions, walking tour routes, transport maps, itinerary suggestions, an extensive street and site index, and practical travel tips and directory....Sheet map, folded$1100Elsewhere:$1499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Epic Runs of the World
Put on your running shoes - it's time to hit the road, the trails and the great outdoors. In this comprehensive runner's companion, you'll find 50 of the world's greatest running routes - from short city runs and must-do marathons to cross-country trails and challenging ultras - plus a further 150 courses around the globe to satisfy runners of all...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Epic Hikes of Europe
Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic series, this time exploring 50 of Europe's most rewarding and beautiful hikes. From the sun-kissed regions of Southern Europe, including Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, to Northern Europe's history-rich heartlands (including France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia), we cover a huge variety of themes and...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLonely Planet Epic Bike Rides of the World
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover 200 of the best places to ride a bike in this beautifully illustrated hardback. From family-friendly, sightseeing urban rides to epic adventures off the beaten track, destinations range from France and Italy, for the world's great bike races, to the wilds of Mongolia and Patagonia. These journeys will inspire—whether you are...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayESSENTIAL Volume Two: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion
ESSENTIAL Volume Two: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion, by Annabel Langbein In this superb new book, best-selling New Zealand cookbook author Annabel Langbein shares hundreds of her favourite and most popular recipes for all things sweet. Featuring everything from nostalgic baking classics to modern vegan desserts, plus tried-and-true tips for perfect results every time and 'springboard' recipes that allow you...Hardback$5200Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe End (The Enemy Book 7)
The End is the final book in Charlie Higson's thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First, it twisted their minds. Next, it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets—crazed and hungry. Sickos swarm the streets of London. Gathered in the centre of the city, they lie in wait. The survivors have one final epic battle...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLife
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story of a man and a world in dramatic...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe World of Dr Seuss: A Search and Find Book
A search and find activity book for readers aged 3+ featuring illustrations from Dr Seuss’s best-loved stories! Immerse yourself in the world of The World of Dr Seuss: A Search and Find Book in this brilliant search and find book! Combining illustrations from ten of Dr Seuss's best-loved stories, join your favourite characters and spot the details within the busy...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Queer Bible
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.’ A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Liminal Zone, Vol. 2
Four-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito presents brand-new nightmares! Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await. What fate awaits when death is not the end? A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there. Before they...Hardback$3199Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Joy of Saying No
Are you still playing a role you learned in childhood to please others, such as the Good Girl/Boy, the Overachiever, or the Helper? Though these kinds of roles may have gained us attention and affection, they prohibited us from becoming our true selves. People-pleasing—putting others ahead of ourselves to avoid something negative or to get something we want or need—runs...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Hallow Hunt
Bly has nothing left to lose in her quest to save her sister in this thrilling sequel to The Revenant Games that’s perfect for fans of All of Us Villains meets Kingdom of the Wicked. Bly won the Revenant Games, but she lost everything else. In her desperation to resurrect her sister, Bly betrayed Kerrigan, the vampire who she’d planned...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayStar Wars: The High Republic: The Edge of Balance—Premonition
A massive, interconnected cross-publisher initiative focused on an all-new era of Star Wars storytelling. The galaxy has been plunged into darkness as the fearsome Nihil continue their destructive advance from the Outer Rim! As brave Jedi Knights fight to protect the Jedi Temple on Banchii in the battle against the Nihil, Jedi Master Yoda must find a way to protect...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayRise and Shine
Charming, talky, wryly funny, poignant and original - Rise and Shine is a love story, yes, but it's a love story that happens ten years into a marriage, when somebody wants out. This is a story about marriage. It is also a story about life, love, happiness, and the absence of happiness, and what we need to do to find...Paperback$3100Usually:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayOverspill
Tender, brutal, devastating, Overspill is the debut novel from incredible new literary talent, Charlotte Paradise, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Coco Mellors. 'This book will break your heart, mend it, and send you away with hope' Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb 'Paradise brings the reader on a journey of both pleasure and pain' Madeline Docherty, author of...Paperback$3000Usually:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayMy Mediterranean Life
Acclaimed clinical nutritionist and bestselling author Sarah Di Lorenzo celebrates her Mediterranean heritage by sharing over 200 beloved recipes and cherished family stories. Brimming with fresh vegetables, fruits, extra-virgin olive oil, fish, and nuts, Sarah’s family-favourite recipes are delicious and easy to make. This book holds over two hundred recipes, including Mediterranean classics like spanakopita, stuffed tomatoes, roasted artichokes, pilafi,...Hardback$4300Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayMinecraft Magical Bite-Size Builds
Learn how to build 20 enchanting mini-builds in Minecraft, with step-by-step instructions. Add some magic to your Overworld with these 20 new mini-projects, from mermaid lagoons and genie lamps to dragons’ lairs and enchanting towers. There’s even a giant magician’s hat that spawns rabbits! With illustrated step-by-step instructions and tips throughout, this book will have you creating loads of magical...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayMaybe This Will Save Me
From filmmaker, writer, producer, and actor Tommy Dorfman comes a beautifully written, bracingly original memoir, structured through the profound revelations of a single tarot card reading. On a hot summer day, twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Dorfman was enjoying a beautiful outing on a boat. But inside, she felt unmoored. After a lifetime of confusion, she had finally gained clarity around her gender...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLearn Quickly: The Big Book of Watercolour
A compilation of practical guidance on everything you need to know about painting people and landscapes in watercolour, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations to develop your masterpiece. Hazel Soan is a hugely successful painter and an outstanding teacher and author of art books, which have introduced the wonders of art to a generation of amateur artists. Here she collates...Hardback$3399Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayJoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 6--Stone Ocean, Vol. 9
A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending battle against evil! The legendary Shonen Jump series is now available in deluxe hardcover editions featuring colour pages! JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga famous for its outlandish characters, wild humour and frenetic battles. After having narrowly escaped from Weather Forecast, Pucchi finally reaches the Time for Heaven...Hardback$3900Elsewhere:$4300Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayHappiness Forever
‘I was mesmerised by Happiness Forever … there is so much rare humour and insight and sweetness and humanity in its pages’ SHEILA HETI ‘A disarmingly sweet book, with a protagonist who speaks to those parts of us we often pretend aren’t there’ NICOLA DINAN A hilarious, beguiling and utterly original debut novel following a woman trying to make sense...Paperback$3000Usually:$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Official Coloring Book
Color over seventy illustrations featuring your favourite characters from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, with art by manga artist Koyoharu Gotouge. In Taisho-era Japan, kind-hearted Tanjiro Kamado makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayDemon Slayer: Kimetsu Academy, Vol. 5
Tanjiro and the rest of the Demon Slayer Corps are back and facing their greatest challenge yet: school life! Welcome to Kimetsu Academy, a school attended by the most exceptional students you’ve ever seen! This comedic spin-off of the international smash hit Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba pits Tanjiro, Nezuko, and all the rest of the Demon Slayer Corps against...Paperback$1900Elsewhere:$2099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayDance with the Fae
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An intoxicating blend of romance, mystery, and magic' 1919 May Day Kit Arton-Price should be celebrating. It's his engagement party and, unlike many young men of his generation, he survived The Great War. Whilst his fiancée, Adelaide, is dancing with one of their guests, the enigmatic Mr Wilde, the scars on Kit's face bear the heavy toll of battle...Paperback$2200Usually:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayDaffodils
Daffodils celebrates this spring floral favourite, with an in-depth look at the many gorgeous and multicoloured varieties, perfect for the garden, the home, and any bouquet. Celebrating the glorious daffodil, spring flowers whose trumpet shape is instantly recognisable throughout the world, this is the next instalment in the iconic flower series by Naomi Slade and Georgianna Lane. Narcissus are known...Hardback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayAn Eye for an Eye
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth… A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. In the heart of the British establishment… Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayAmelia, If Only
The beautiful and heartwarming new romance from Becky Albertalli, best-selling author of Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Amelia, If Only follows Amelia Applebaum, who isn’t in love with Walter Holland. He just happens to be her favourite moderately famous, chaotically bisexual YouTuber. She just happened to invite him to prom. (But it’s fine. No, for real. If you delete...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayAircraft of World War 2
Aircraft of World War 2 by Kieran Whitworth and The Imperial War Museum is the definitive visual history of key World War Two aircraft. This visually stunning, accessible, and fascinating account covers 50 key aircraft from World War Two, illustrated by the outstanding photograph archive of the Imperial War Museum. Delve into the origins, development, and operations of the iconic...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday100% Unofficial Fortnite 100 Top Plays
Celebrate the best of Fortnite, with the greatest characters, storylines, locations and tactics in the game! Get ready to discover the very best of Fortnite, the incredible game that is packed with awesome characters, epic storylines and the very best battle royale action. The 100% Unofficial Fortnite 100 Top Plays brings you the greatest outfits, locations and storylines throughout the...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayYour Time Starts Now
The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author. Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In many ways, her win was unlikely. As a child, Julie adored music and art, but her career began in youth work, including in a juvenile detention centre housing...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayWould that be funny?
John Clarke was best known as Fred Dagg in New Zealand and for ‘The Games’ and ‘Clarke and Dawe’ in Australia. He was a performer, actor, writer, satirist and commentator. But he was also a father and a husband. In this delightful book, his daughter Lorin tells the story of growing up in the Clarke family: with John, her mother...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayWonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and 'mother' to wounded soldiers...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayUnearthed
A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world, from food grower Claire Ratinon. A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayUGLY
A fighter, a protector, a figurehead, a jailbird, a son, husband, and father, who started a brotherhood and has stood by it ever since. We were about to get into it when the other soldiers pulled us apart. I didn't care about squaring off against a Major, I was going home. I didn't really even know what I was saying,...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThis House Of Grief
Critically-acclaimed true crime from the author of The First Stone (Picador, 2007), The Spare Room (Canongate, 2008) and Cosmo Cosmolino (Text, 2013). On the evening of the 4th September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Words Inside
Emmah is young and beautiful, with the world at her feet. She is also a true survivor. Emmah Money's life story is a remarkable one. During a night out, an acquaintance noted Emmah's resemblance to some friends of his. This observation would prove to have a profound effect on Emmah's life. Emmah hoped for a reunion with her biological parents,...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Story of a Life
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma. The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld chronicles his experiences as the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World War Two. Their peaceful life is upended when soldiers...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Spider
The Spider by Barry Levine explores the enigma that was Jeffrey Epstein. A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist reveals never-before-reported details in this comprehensive account of the disgraced financier’s life, death, and criminal web, including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell. An ID Book Club Selection and featured in the Peacock original documentary series Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell. By now, the basic contours...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Phantom of the Open
The Phantom of the Open is soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance. This hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story chronicles the life of Maurice Flitcroft, the World’s Worst Golfer. 'The story of its greatest anti-hero is just what the game needs' - Spectator When 46-year-old crane driver Maurice Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open—never...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Mascot
One summer's day in 1997, Mark Kurzem returned home to find his father on his doorstep. Alex Kurzem had travelled halfway round the world to reveal a long-kept secret, and now wanted his son's help to piece together his past and his identity. As a five-year-old during the Second World War, Alex Kurzem had watched from a tree as his...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Letters of the Younger Pliny
The Letters of the Younger Pliny provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome. A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius, and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Letters of Abelard and Heloise
The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Peter Abelard was a 12th-century French philosopher and celebrated logician. He taught in Paris, where Heloise was his pupil. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings, through the suffering, the public scandal and enforced...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Last Days
A lyrical and powerful memoir of leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses, from an exciting new literary talent. 'A masterpiece' — Amy Liptrot 'Courageous stuff... intense, compelling, raw' — The Times It is 1982 and in the Kingdom Hall we are Jehovah's Witnesses. The state of the world shows us the end is close, and Satan is like a roaring lion, seeking...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Journals of Captain Cook
This is a substantial selection from the Journals of Captain Cook's voyages, drawn from the four-volume Beaglehole edition. It represents not only Cook's own accounts of his various voyages, but those of his companions, notably the naturalist, Joseph Banks.Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe House At Salvation Creek
Continuing the story of Susan Duncan's bestselling memoir, Salvation Creek, The House picks up after Bob and Susan marry and, two years later, move from her Tin Shed into his "pale yellow house on the high, rough hill", Tarrangaua, built for the iconic Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar. Set against the backdrop of the small, close-knit Pittwater community with its colourful...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades. In The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, Jefferson Morley delivers a gripping biography of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton, one of the most important unelected officials in the US government during the...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973 – c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace: the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Criminal Mind
The Criminal Mind is the harrowing memoir of forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding. As a forensic psychiatrist, Duncan Harding has worked on some of the most harrowing cases one can imagine, spending time in the prison service, the Old Bailey and at Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital. His is a life spent working with serial killers, psychopaths, and children who kill their...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Confessions
Rousseau's autobiography provides a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment. Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilised society. In his Confessions, he relives the first...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Believer
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves to deal with the distance between the world as it is, and...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayThe Believer
This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves to deal with the distance between the world as it is, and...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayStep by Step
A true testament to one of Nepal's finest mountaineers Step by Step is the compelling and insightful biography of Pemba Gelje Sherpa, one of his generation's most accomplished Nepalese mountaineers. Having climbed twenty-one peaks over 8,000 metres, including eight ascents of Everest, Pemba reveals his remarkable journey from a humble village boy to a world-renowned guide and environmentalist. Through candid...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayStart Your Engines
From firefighter to CrossFit superstar, Sam Briggs (aka The Engine) tells her inspirational story of battling her way to the top, facing injuries and setbacks head-on with the same unstoppable energy and grit that have made her an icon in the sport. Includes an updated chapter on the 2020 season. You don't get biceps like Briggs by giving up when...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondaySpudd: The Autobiography
The long overdue autobiography of Mark "Spudd" Carroll is one of the most fearsome players to ever lace on a boot. In the brutal world of rugby league, Mark "Spudd" Carroll is one of the most fearsome players to ever lace on a boot. An enforcer who would do everything in his power to ensure victory for his team -...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondaySnow On the Lindis
Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow's story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand's famous stations, once an enormous 400,000 acres. The great stone woolshed is one of New Zealand's most recognisable farm buildings and is among the largest shearing sheds in the country with 34 stands. Madge Snow...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondaySir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life
Sixty years ago, New Zealand's greatest adventurer, Edmund Hillary, made world history with his ascent of Mt Everest. This intimate and inspiring book tells the full story of Sir Edmund Hillary's extraordinary life, from his expeditions to remote corners of the world to his humanitarian activities serving the Sherpa people. Drawing on Sir Ed's personal archives, it is a portrait...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayQuestion 7
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayQueens of the Crusades
The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England includes the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the subject of Alison's most successful book. Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel - Tracy Borman Crusading...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayPatting the Shark
Patting the Shark is a surfer's journey learning to live well with cancer. Tim Baker was living the dream: a best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel, and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on 7 July 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4,...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayOld Dogs New Tricks
More cock and bull stories from New Zealand's favourite country vets. Old Dogs New Tricks brings you more laugh-out-loud and entertaining yarns from two of New Zealand's renowned veterinarians, Peter Anderson (aka the Flying Vet) and Peter Jerram (aka the Sailing Vet). With over thirty years of shared practice, they have plenty of stories to tell about the animals and...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayNot Dead Yet: The Autobiography
The long-awaited autobiography from Phil Collins, one of the bestselling music artists of all time. This is the rollercoaster journey from his beginnings as a child actor to his domination of the charts both as a solo artist and as part of Genesis. His success is astounding, his music has global reach and his story is legendary. In his own...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayMayhem
A searing memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. For years Sigrid Rausing watched helplessly as her brother Hans and his wife Eva succumbed to drug addiction. It afflicted a terrible toll on their family, culminating in Eva's tragic early death. As this death led to an inquest and media circus, the world looked on in horror, but...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLucky Loser
A masterpiece of narrative reporting and an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump's wealth, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters—revealing how a man once thought to be too rich to fail became the biggest loser of all. Lucky Loser is an explosive investigation into the history of Trump's wealth, drawing on over twenty years' worth of Trump's confidential tax...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLives of the Artists
Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability. In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes, he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLi Na: My Life (English Edn)
Watch Li Na winning at the Australian Open. Now read her life story. Li Na claimed an unprecedented victory at the 2011 French Open at age twenty-nine and became the first player from an Asian country to win a Grand Slam singles title. Outspoken and likeable, the 'late-blooming' Chinese tennis superstar is one of the world's top ten players and...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLife on Muzzle
Raising children is a challenge at the best of times—try doing it on a farm that is a three-hour drive across rivers and mountains to the nearest town, when the track is driveable at all. Remote Muzzle Station in southern Marlborough has captured the hearts and minds of generations, including Fiona Redfern and her parents before her. Fiona grew up...Paperback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips MondayLaughing at the Dark
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' – a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. From the best-selling and acclaimed author Barbara Else, Laughing at the Dark is a funny, moving memoir about how she rebelled against being a 'good girl'. By the time she was in her forties, Barbara was...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips Monday