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Gomorrah - Italy's Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano
$8.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Now with a new preface to mark the ten year anniversary of publication, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller which has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has ...Show more
Murder in Amsterdam - The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma
$10.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri calmly stood over the body an ...Show more
Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and how I became Putin's no. 1 enemy by Bill Browder
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Virgins of Venice by Mary Laven
$10.00 NZD
Category: History
Venice in the sixteenth century was home to over fifty convents. But these weren't just spiritual institutions, they were also dumping grounds for the 'unmarriageable' women of Venetian noble families. Thrust into a life for which they had no vocation, many women found it hard to give up the trappings o ...Show more
The Shadow of the Guillotine - Britain and the French Revolution by David Bindman
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Khrushchev's Cold War - The Inside Story of an American Adversary by Aleksandr Fursenko; Timothy Naftali
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In "Khrushchev's Cold War", Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors of the Cuban missile crisis classic "One Hell of a Gamble", bring to life head-to-head confrontations between K ...Show more
The Black Room at Longwood - Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena by Jean-Paul Kauffmann; Patricia Clancy (Translator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Like his subject, Napoleon, author Jean-Paul Kauffmann has experienced captivity, as a three-year hostage in Beirut. He brings his insider's knowledge to this moving account of the most famous French soldier's last years in seclusion on a tropical island. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon w ...Show more
The Encyclopaedia of Ireland by Brian Lalor
$65.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The first modern, single-volume Irish encyclopaedia, celebrating Irish achievement in all fields of human endeavour throughout recorded history.The Encyclopaedia of Ireland contains a full A-Z listing of articles on all things Irish, past and present, written by experts in the various fields. All text h ...Show more
Venice and Its Lagoon Historical-Artisitic Guide by Giulio Lorenzetti
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good