Non-Fiction

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Raising Hare (B)
BookRaising Hare (B)

A Hare’s Tale: An Unlikely Friendship THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARD AND BIOGRAPHERS’ CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE...

$27.99
Protocols - An Operating Manual for the Human Body
BookProtocols - An Operating Manual for the Human Body

Simple, essential tools to transform your brain function, mood, focus and bodily health – the first book from Stanford neuroscientist Dr Andrew Huberman. In Protocols, Dr Andrew Huberman introduces simple, science-based practices that can substantially improve your day-to-day mental...

$45.00
Naturalist's Guide To The Insects Of Aotearoa
BookNaturalist's Guide To The Insects Of Aotearoa

A Naturalist’s Guide to the Insects of Aotearoa New Zealand is an easy-to-use, introductory photographicguide to New Zealand’s insects that is perfect for resident and visitor alike.It includes the familiar faces of Aotearoa’s most common insect species, whilstalso introducing...

$29.99
Photographic Guide to Birds of NZ
BookPhotographic Guide to Birds of NZ

This book features photographs of the most commonly seen birds along with detailed information on distribution, habitat, behaviour and breeding. Initially published as the first New Zealand title in a successful international series, Geoff Moon s compact yet...

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Surviving White Island and Everything That Came After
BookSurviving White Island and Everything That Came After

Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery, from someone who lived through the Whakaari White Island volcanic eruption. "I heard someone say, 'Wow!' And someone else exclaimed, 'Look...

$39.99
Central Otago in Bite-Sized Chunks
BookCentral Otago in Bite-Sized Chunks

This is an easy-to-digest history of Central Otago, New Zealand presented in bite-sized chunks. Through the pages of this book, you'll be guided through many of the key events that have shaped our nation.

$29.99
Come Back Code, The
BookCome Back Code, The

Jake Bailey knows all about adversity - but also about resilience.As head boy at Christchurch Boys' High in 2015, Jake delivered his end-of-year speech from a wheelchair, only a week after being diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form...

$37.99
Lonely Planet, The Flag Book
BookLonely Planet, The Flag Book

Suitable for children ages 9-12 Welcome to the amazing world of flags! Did you know that each flag is actually a picture that sends a message to everyone who sees it? In The Flag Book, Lonely Planet Kids...

$29.99
Animal Anatomy
BookAnimal Anatomy

Sophie Corrigan evokes everyone's inner zoologist in this charmingly illustrated and wittily worded menagerie. Each critter featured in this fun book is tagged with totally fictitious yet comically accurate anatomical labels, from a tree frog's "clingy jazz hands"...

$29.99
Killers of the Flower Moon (Adapted YA)
BookKillers of the Flower Moon (Adapted YA)

The New York Times bestseller and the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime winner Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young adults.**KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO...

$26.99
Saving Elli
BookSaving Elli

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war. One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger.In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is...

$37.99
Abandoning a Cat
Abandoning a Cat

A beautifully illustrated edition of the internationally bestselling author's meditation on memory and family. 'Even now, I can relive the shared puzzlement of that summer day when we rode together on his bike to the beach at Koroen...

$38.00
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
BookBreakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China’s astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of...

$35.00
World According to Snoopy, The
BookWorld According to Snoopy, The

Celebrate the wit and wisdom of Snoopy and his friends! Good grief, the Peanuts friends are a pretty wise bunch (they are 75 years old, after all!). Learn a thing or two from them in this lovely gift...

$22.99
Serviceman J (B)
BookServiceman J (B)

A new edition of the bestselling 2024 memoir by a former NZSAS commander, on serving in Afghanistan over four deployments and operating at the edge of his limits 'Frighteningly, devastatingly real.' - The Post In 2011, following the...

$27.99
Digging Deep
BookDigging Deep

The goldfields of nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand have long been talked and written about as almost exclusively male places. Many historians have either ignored women completely or mentioned them only as wives or as prostitutes. But they could...

$59.99
Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness
BookSavage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

This book takes us into the wild – deep into dark forests, to the top of mountains and into the heart of deserts. It addresses our deep yearnings to be awed and inspired by landscapes that remain beyond...

$36.99
London Falling
BookLondon Falling

 'From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city. 'A new book by Keefe...

$40.00
No Land to Stand On
BookNo Land to Stand On

LOOK INSIDE fX✉ ISBN: 9781037410697 Format: Paperback Pub Date: 29/09/2026 Category: Memoirs, Political Structures: Democracy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Memoirs, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Refugees and political asylum Imprint: Picador Price:...

$40.00
Adventures of a Young Naturalist:SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS
BookAdventures of a Young Naturalist:SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo’s collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC. This is the...

$29.99
Curate
BookCurate

"This gorgeous book marries inspirational ideas with real interiors, to help you curate a home that reflects your personal story and style." Kate Watson-Smyth of Mad About The House     "Helpfully divided into eight key elements that...

$65.00
Birdlands
BookBirdlands

A rare, intimate journey into the wild islands where Aotearoa’s birds live beyond the reach of most human lives. In the most remote outposts of Aotearoa, our islands are populated not with people, but with birds. From the...

$50.00
Want (B)
BookWant (B)

THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Want makes for addictive reading . . . compelling' Guardian'I just loved reading it. It's exceptional' Fearne Cotton, Happy Place'An empowering project' Stylist'Extremely sexy . . . Want is...

$29.99
Roll the Calls: A Memoir
Roll the Calls: A Memoir

One of Hollywood’s most accomplished, feared – and funny – dealmakers has some stuff he wants to get off his chest. A lifetime worth of stuff. And secrets. And stories. And it all makes for one hell of...

$39.99
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