Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories by Diane Purkiss
Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of A Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager
Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages by David Crystal and Hilary Crystal
Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language by David Crystal
History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies by Dominick LaCapra
Xanadu: Marco [...]

Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover
You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe by Christopher Potter
Meals To Come: A History of the Future of Food by Warren Belasco
Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi [...]

Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
A History of the English-Speaking People Since 1900 by Andrew Roberts
Sleuth: The Amazing Quest For Lost Art Treasures by Philip Mould
Europe East & West by Norman Davies
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Ideas That Changed the World by [...]

New stock of Military History books including:
General:
Great Zulu Battles 1838-1906 by Ian Knight

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Chechnya: A Small Victorious War by Carlotta Gall & Thomas de Waal
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
World War I:

The First World War by John Keegan
First World War by [...]

Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland, by Basharat Peer
The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century by Tom Bower
Disaster at the Pole: The Crash of the Airship Italia - A Harrowing True Tale of Arctic Endurance and Survival by Wilbur Cross
Luck & The Irish: [...]

Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends by Jonathan Neale
Rifles: Six Years With Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
The Making of the British Army from the English Civil War to the War on Terror by Allan Mallinson
The Soldier: A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood by Darren Moore
The Clinton [...]

Earth Fire Water Air: Anne Danger’s Letters to Grace Crowley 1930-1951 edited by Helen Topliss
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
The Secret Lives of Words by Paul West
Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot by Carole Seymour-Jones
Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
Opotiki-Mai-Tawhiti: Capital of Whakatohea by [...]

Aphrodite’s Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti by Anne Salmond
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice by Judith Martin
God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting From a Militant Middle East by Judith Miller
Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient by Barbara Hodgson
NZSAS: The First Fifty [...]

The Golden Age of New Zealand Flying Boats
by Paul Harrison
Auckland: Random House, 1997
320pp, B/W plates

Danger Ahead: New Zealand Railway Accidents in the Modern Era
by Geoffrey B. Churchman
Sydney: IPL Books, 1991
159pp, B/W plates

The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey Through History
by Geoffrey B. Churchman and Tony Hurst
Auckland: William Collins, 1990
225pp, colour [...]

The Prize of All Oceans: The Triumph and Tragedy of Anson’s Voyage Round the World by Glyn Williams
The Island at the Centre of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & the Forgotten Colony that Sahped America by Russell Shorto
D-Day: The Battle For Normandy by Antony Beevor
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the [...]