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Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
$29.00 NZD
Category: History
'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ...Show more
Black Hands by Martin van Beynen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
This is the story of a mass-murder that divided a nation. It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was th ...Show more
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
JANE PERLEZ: "A tightly written, easy-to-read drama, the story of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his decades-long sexual harassment of young women, from famous actresses to his assistants. It took guts, persuasive powers, and amazing journalism by two New York Times reporters to unlock the sordid ...Show more
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by novelist David Vann Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.Internationally bestselling author and mountaineer J ...Show more
The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
John Lennon achieved with the Beatles a level of superstardom that defied classification. "We were the best bloody band there was," he said. "There was nobody to touch us." In the summer of 1980, Lennon signs with a label and hires a top producer to recruit the best session musicians, ready to record ...Show more
Whale Oil: One Man’s Fight to Save His Reputation, then His Life by Margie Thomson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
In May 2012 Auckland businessman Matt Blomfield found himself the target of a vicious online attack, the work of Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater. The attack came out of the blue, destroying Blomfield’s reputation and career, stealing his identity, turning him into a social outcast. Two years after the ...Show more
Hiroshima - Penguin Modern Classics by John Hersey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men an ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$28.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A riveting, thoughtful and deeply moving book which thoroughly investigates terrorism and politics in Northern Ireland, the wickedness of all sides, and the human tragedy for one family in parti ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
$28.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
Three Women (PB) by Lisa Taddeo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A book that blazes, glitters and cuts to the heart of who we are. I'm not sure that a book can do much more’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘I will probably reread it every year of my life’ CAITLIN MORAN ‘This book will stay with me. As un ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$33.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...Show more
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
