Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris's take on existence is calm, unique, and makes one's soul feel good yet never once does he rely on feel-good techniques." (Douglas Coupland). Solitude is a rapidly vanishing experience. Our society now embraces sharing like never before: t ...Show more
Solo - Backcountry Adventures in Aotearoa New Zealand by Hazel Phillips
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
One afternoon, journalist Hazel Phillips decided to close her laptop and head for the hills. She then spent the next three years living in mountain huts and tramping alone for days at a time, all the while holding down a full-time job. As she ranged from Arthur's Pass and the Kaimanawa Forest Park to th ...Show more
Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
Some Day - Inside the Dream Tour by SWANTON Will
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
It's the Dream Tour: the race for the world surfing championship. It's cut-throat. It's personal. It's The Big Five-Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson and Andy Irons-attacking each other like wild dogs. Some Day goes behind the roped-off areas to reveal all the bonds, rifts, triumphs ...Show more
Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' Time One of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned for his exceptional novels - works colossal in visi ...Show more
Somewhere by Lorna Jane Harvey
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
More people are likely migrating now than at any other time in history, and this is set to increase as climate change and political unrest pushes even more people to relocate. From the fleeing refugee to the political and economic migrant, a broad range of migration by people of many cultures, ethniciti ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
With skill and candour, the acclaimed London book editor, who turned 90 in December 2007, tells the story of what it means to be old.Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forge ...Show more
Song of a Young Country by Neil Colquhoun (editor)
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 1st
An illustrated New Zealand history in the words and music of songs. This is a totally revised and enlarged edition of a classic of NZ publishing; the 1972 edition has been out of print for decades. This is rich, poetic Kiwi cultural treasure - the songs of the pioneers: whalers, sealers, gumdiggers, gol ...Show more
Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts : A literary quiz book by James Walton
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
With questions ranging from the deliciously unexpected (Who's the only person in literary history both to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and to have played a girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in "Coronation Street"?) to the reassuringly canonical (Dickens's fourth novel was the first he'd published ...Show more
Sons of Thunder - Writing from the Fast Lane - A Motorcycling Anthology by Neil Bradford (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Robert Pirsig, in his groundbreaking "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", wrote about the relationship of rider and machine, the fact of 'seeing deeply into the nature of things by direct experience'. T.E. Lawrence described 'the lustfulness of moving swiftly', the sensation of feeling 'the eart ...Show more
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - a ...Show more
Sophie's Legacy: The Sophie Elliott Story by Lesley Elliott with Bill O'Brien
$40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: Very Good
Sophie Elliott had everything to live for, until her ex boyfriend decided otherwise. The gripping mother's tale of a murder that shocked New Zealand. Sophie Elliott had good looks, intelligence, friends, a loving family, a degree under her belt and a new job at the Treasury in Wellington. And then, the ...Show more