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100 Cupboards (#1) by N. D. Wilson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: 100 Cupboards
Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above his head.It's an unfamiliar house - Henry is staying with his aunt, uncle and three cousins - so he tries to ignore it. But the next night he wakes up with bits of plaster in his hair. Henry scrapes the p ...Show more
A Jealous Ghost by A. N. Wilson
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
There is something rather disquieting about Sallie Declan, a young American in London, and it is not just her obsession with Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, the subject of her PhD thesis. There is her decision, almost casually taken, to leave her studies for a temporary job as a nanny in a large co ...Show more
ABC of Men's Fashion by n
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
For all men - and indeed all women who are interested in men's clothes - here is an alphabetical guide to men's fashion written with wit and expert knowledge. From the etiquette of dressing to the meaning of technical terms, Hardy Amies' skilful eye guides you safely through style decisions on everythin ...Show more
Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self by Allan N. Schore
$85.00 NZD
Category: General
In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional devel ...Show more
After The Victorians - The World our Parents Knew by A. N. Wilson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
After the Victorians 1901-1953 by A.N. Wilson
$79.90 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. How did Britain's power and influence decline? T ...Show more
Aftershocks by A. N. Wilson
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"It's unlikely that a more intelligent, amusing and yet disturbing novel will appear this autumn." Scotsman On The Island, just as on many other islands, marriages are unhappy, people fall in love and the seasons pass. The town of Aberdeen is no different, until the earthquakes. These seismic ripples t ...Show more
Ancient Rhetoric - From Aristotle to Phi by Thomas N. Habinek
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtro ...Show more
Beer Games by D. A. N. BRIDGES
$20.00 NZD
Category: Drinks
It's time to take beer drinking to the next level? These outrageous challenges, hilarious dares and awesome drinking games will make beer drinking even better than it was before. A good session will never be the same. Rise to the challenge, if you dare...
Betjeman by A.N. Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and architecture. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. For mu ...Show more
C.S. Lewis - A biography by A N Wilson
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the
Charles Darwin - Victorian Mythmaker by A N Wilson
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Charles Darwin: the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age, part genius, part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A. N. Wilson, the acclaime ...Show more