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The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
Troy by Stephen Fry
$37.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic tale of Troy The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whol ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (PB) by Simon Winchester
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
'Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' - Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories.Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
#1 New York Times Bestseller From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thou ...Show more
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus's origins in p ...Show more
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
$24.00 NZD
Category: History
'Stunningly written' Sunday Times 'Richly absorbing' Guardian 'Hooks you in from the start' Times 'Masterful' Independent 'Hugely compelling' Observer 'Wonderful' Financial Times _______________ Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. ...Show more
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America's leading Black writers. Curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the number one bestseller How To Be an Antira ...Show more
Stalin's Wine Cellar by John Baker
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, John was the perfect person for an occasional business partner, Andrew Simon, to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, or his second-in-comm ...Show more
Voyagers: The settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Landmark Library
The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. From an award-winning scholar, the extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. Thousands of islands, inhabited by a multitude of different peoples, are scattered across the vas ...Show more
A House in the Mountains - The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, t ...Show more
