Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Humour
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and spac ...Show more
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara
$28.00 NZD
Category: Film, TV, Theatre
'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times ... 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday ... 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound ... 'A must read' Edgar Wright A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in fr ...Show more
The Team That Hit the Rocks: The Inside Story of the Wahine Disaster by Peter Jerram
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
In April 1968 the New Zealand interisland passenger ferry Wahine, a fast and modern ship for its time, hit Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour in a cyclone, the worst storm ever recorded in New Zealand's history. Six and a half hours later the ship heeled over and sank, with the eventual ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
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In Search of Schrodinger's Cat by John Gribbin
$29.00 NZD
Category: Schrödinger's Cats
Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering. In Search of S ...Show more