Astor - The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper; Katherine Howe
$25.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinventi ...Show more
Maximum City - Bombay lost and found by Suketu Mehta
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Winner Of The 2005 Kiriyama Prize For Non-FictionSuketu Mehta Left Bombay At The Age Of 14. Twenty-One Years Later He Returned To Rediscover The City. The Result Is This Stunning, Brilliantly Illuminating Portrait Of The Megalopolis And Its People-A Book, Seven Years In The Making, That Is As Vast, As D ...Show more
The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor's Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667
$200.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Fortress Kent by Roy Ingleton
$25.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Since the dawn of civilization, Britain has been menaced by foreign powers and invasive hordes, anxious either to pillage and plunder or to invade and rule over this green and pleasant land.
State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand Volume I and Volume II by W Pember Reeves
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Dark Valley - A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendon
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The author offers an overview of the 1930s, a story of the dark, dishonset decade that determined the course of the 20th century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan and Russia - the reader is taken through ten years dominated by ...Show more
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916 - Anzacs and the Rising by Rory Sweetman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: new
Little has been written on Trinity College's role in Easter Week 1916 as a 'loyal nucleus' dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to rebel headquarters in the GPO. This book reveals how five New Zealanders, acting as the core of a small squad of colonial troops, provided a vita ...Show more
The End Game - The Final Chapter in Britain's Great Game in Afghanistan by Susan Loughhead
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Beginning by drawing parallels between the author's experiences at the British Embassy in Kabul from 2010 to 2013 and her grandfather's experiences of the same just after Indian Independence from 1948 to 1950, this book takes a thematic approach to analyse the role of Britain in Afghanistan since the co ...Show more
Elizabeth's Spymaster - Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England by Robert Hutchinson
$10.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain - the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protesta ...Show more
Roots by Alex Haley
$12.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave ma ...Show more
Henrietta Howard - King's Mistress, Queen's Servant by Borman, Tracy
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good