We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
We Three Go South: The 1890 Diary of Ethel Richardson's Trip to the Sub-Antarctic by Ethel Richardson
$35.00 NZD
$40.00 (12% off)
Category: History
The year is 1890 and the writer is nineteen years old when she and her two sisters decided - on the toss of a coin - to embark on a voyage on the S.S. Hinemoa to the Sub Antarctic Islands of New Zealand, visiting places where few women had ventured before. Lillie, Ethel and Fannie were experienced sailo ...Show more
Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies by Alexandra Harris
$21.99 NZD
Category: History
Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems and pa ...Show more
Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times by Olivia Swarthout
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
A GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDBursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, this handy guide will give you time-tested solutions for all of life's biggest problems. Whether it's choosing an appropriate dog name like Garlik or Filthe, becoming an irresistible suitor ...Show more
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
**NAMED FINANCIAL TIMES "TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR"****NAMED EVENING STANDARD "BOOK OF THE YEAR"****NAMED NEW STATESMAN "BEST BOOK OF 2017"** A warm and intimate memoir by an acclaimed historian that explores the European struggles of the twentieth century through the lives, hopes, and dreams of a si ...Show more
When the World Stood Still by Joseph Cummins
$15.99 NZD
Category: History
"When the World Stood Still" is part of "The Pocket History series" - a conveniently portable, stylishly packaged and eminently collectible set of six books that each open a window onto a selection of remarkable stories, characters and themes from the past. How different would our world be if Christophe ...Show more
White King - Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever. Charles I's r ...Show more
White King: Charles I - Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever.Charles I's re ...Show more
Wild by Nathan Besser
$37.00 NZD
Category: History
Jonathan Wild knows power like almost no one else in London. He arrived as a wide-eyed young man in 1703, dazzled by a metropolis brimming with trade, immigration and crime. With a combination of greed, arrogance and ambition, Wild stopped at nothing to secure his place in this great and monstrous Londo ...Show more
William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution by Jonathan Keates
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain's only ever 'joint monarchs') changed the course of the entire country's history, coming to power through a coup (which involved Mary betraying her own father), reestablishing parliament on a new footing and, through commiting Britain to fighting ...Show more
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
The remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country "and" its wine." -Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d'Argent In 1940, Fr ...Show more
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Sir Max Hastings, Sir
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, "Winston's War" captures the full range of Churchill's endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings's Churchill comes brashly to life as ...Show more