Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
$14.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
In Wild Journeys Bruce Ansley retraces the path of doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps, follows the raiding party of northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast, sails around New Zealand's North and South capes, walks through the valley under the Two Thumb Range to mythical Mesopota ...Show more
Writes of Passage: Words To Read Before You Turn 13 by Nicolette Jones
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A collection of 100 pieces of writing - poems, prose, letters, speeches, song lyrics, quotations, and more - from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman and from John Donne to Oliver Jeffers, which are in turn powerful, funny, moving, wise, and thought-provoking, expertly curated and with accessible, thoughtful ...Show more