Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years
By: Chris Finlayson
3.60
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the mos…
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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
By: Sarah Krasnostein
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more
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2. Working with David: Inside the Lange Cabinet
By: Michael Bassett
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
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4. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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5. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
6. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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7. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
By: Kati Marton
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more
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"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
8. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
9. Turncoat
By: Tihema Baker
4.20
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
I see you’re coming to terms with what it means for a Human to serve the Hierarch.’ ‘Well, I know … read more
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10. Lioness
By: Emily Perkins
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more
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11. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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12. Straight Up
By: Ruby Tui
4.38
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more
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"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"-Ruby Tui, Straight Up
13. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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14. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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15. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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16. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
17. Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
4.01
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more
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18. The Drinking Game
By: Guyon Espiner
4.39
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
An incisive analysis of how our drinking culture is influenced by the government, media and big bus… read more
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19. Gangster's Paradise
By: Jared Savage
4.13
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in … read more
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20. Blue Blood
By: Andrea Vance
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
'A political bombshell book' - Sunday Star TimesBeginning with the shock resignation of John Key, B… read more
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21. My Life
By: David Lange
3.65
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
'The problem with recording one's life is not that there is so much that escapes the memory, but th… read more
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22. Mad on Meth: How New Zealand got hooked on P
By: Benedict Collins
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Why cook at home when you can order in? Only 50 years ago, pure methamphetamine was legally presc… read more
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23. Yes, Minister: An Insider's Account of the John Key years
By: Chris Finlayson
3.60
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
An insightful and entertaining glimpse into what really made the John Key government one of the mos… read more
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24. Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime
By: Jared Savage
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs New Zealand is now one of the most … read more
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25. On the Record
By: Steven Joyce
4.22
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
A candid and comprehensive account from one of National's main powerbrokers during the John Key yea… read more
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26. National Identity: Confessions of an outsider
By: Simon Bridges
3.96
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinit… read more
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27. Pull No Punches: Memoir of a political survivor
By: Judith Collins
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
The most anticipated political memoir of the year. A frank account from National MP Judith Collins … read more
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28. Labour Saving: A Memoir
By: Michael Cullen
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating and in-depth insight into the extraordinary career of one of our most important polit… read more
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29. Steve Hansen: The Legacy
By: Gregor Paul
4.22
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
The making of a New Zealand coaching great Between the years 2012 and 2019, Sir Steve Hansen overs… read more
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30. We Need to Talk About Norman: New Zealand’s Lost Leader
By: Denis Welch
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Norman Kirk was Prime Minister for only 90 weeks but in the early 1970s he inspired us by leading a… read more
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31. Bolger: A View From The Top
By: Jim Bolger
3.00
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
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