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America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
German Anzacs and the First World War by John Williams
47.99 NZD
Category: Military History
By 1914, Australia's German immigrants were well-regarded in their communities and made up (after Irish and Scots) the fourth-largest white ethnic community in Australia. This history traces the experience of the immigrants who enlisted for service in World War I and the difficulties they faced.
Hating Perfection by John F Williams
43.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Invites you to experience your life in a new way. Our world stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds, flooded everywhere by a perfection both alien and addicting. Though our final end is visible, we have excellent reason to go forward.
I Once Met a Man - R. M. Williams by R. M. Williams; John Howard (Foreword by)
44.99 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
Understand, then, that these chapters are concerned with the spirit of men and women from whom something of worth has shone out to make them worthy of record. You will note that the book is not of deeds, achievement, great honour; just that indefinable something that has no other name in our language bu ...Show more
Nothing but the Night by John Williams
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Author of "Stoner"
Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimac ...Show more
Pooh and the Magicians by John Tyerman Williams (Illus Ernest H Shepard)
24.95 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Reading Level: 18+
At the very heart of the Ancient Mysteries of the World sits the Great Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. In astrology, where even a constellation bears the name of our Great Bear, in Alchemy, and in the deeper secrets of Hermetism, in Druidism, in the Qabalah and in the interpretation of Tarot, Winnie-the-Pooh is ...Show more
Pooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman Williams
24.95 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Reading Level: very good
'In this witty and entertaining excursion through previously unchartered areas of the world of Pooh, John Tyerman Williams sets out to prove beyond a doubt that the whole of Western philosophy - from the cosmologists of ancient Greece to existentialism in this century - may be found in Winnie-the-Pooh a ...Show more
Rugby Sevens: Skills, Tactics & Rules by Tony Williams, Eric Rush, John McKittrick
29.99 NZD
Category: Rugby
Sevens rugby is fast and free-flowing - which makes it a great game to play and to watch. With 100 + photographs and 35 diagrams, this book is ideal for players, coaches and fans. It is a truly international game, with tournaments bringing together teams and fans from around the world to create huge fes ...Show more
Rugby Skills, Tactics & Rules: 5th Edition by Tony Williams & John McKittrick
12.99 NZD
39.99 (67% off)
Category: Rugby
Clear, concise and authoritative. Learn how to play or coach rugby to get the most enjoyment out of the game and win! The complex laws of rugby are threaded throughout the book in a way that makes them simple to understand. Explanations of the basic skills for running, passing, catching, and tackling ar ...Show more
Stoner by John Williams
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ...Show more