The New New Zealand: Facing demographic disruption
By: Paul Spoonley
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timely book, New Zealand’s best-known commentator on population trends, Distinguished Profe…
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1. My Name Was Judas
By: C.K. Stead
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Judas's name became synonymous with betrayer, but is that how Judas saw it? In this witty and teasi… read more
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2. The Larnachs
By: Owen Marshall
4.50
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, … read more
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3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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4. Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis
By: Max Rashbrooke
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The divide between New Zealand's poorest and wealthiest inhabitants has widened alarmingly over rec… read more
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5. Black Ice Matter
By: Gina Cole , Gina Cole
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. Sometimes … read more
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6. The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #15)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The latest novel from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most… read more
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7. Prizes: The Selected Stories
By: Janet Frame
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collecti… read more
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8. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
9. 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
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
14. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
15. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
16. 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
17. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath
By: Peter Zeihan
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more
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18. Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
By: Bill Browder
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browd… read more
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19. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
20. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
By: Martyn Rady
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more
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21. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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22. 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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23. 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
24. The Shortest History of China
By: Linda Jaivin
4.01
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, m… read more
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25. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
By: Kevin Rudd
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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26. 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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27. Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists
By: Byron Clark
4.13
Format: 288 pages, ebook
How conspiracy theorists, far-right activists, anti-vaxers, fundamentalist Christian leaders, and t… read more
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28. 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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29. The New New Zealand: Facing demographic disruption
By: Paul Spoonley
3.76
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In this timely book, New Zealand’s best-known commentator on population trends, Distinguished Profe… read more
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30. Great Tales From New Zealand History
By: Gordon McLauchlan
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Who really did 'discover' New Zealand?; Why history has turned its back on the timid Abel Tasman; T… read more
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