History

100 tales of extraordinary women - the most highly supported original book ever in the history of crowdfunding.

What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species challenges everything we know about being human.

The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

A little book containing so much: a novella, history, eyewitness reports, Maori translation, verse and images.

This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand.

So begins The Histories, the very first work of history and one of the most dramatic accounts of the ancient world ever written, brought to life again in Tom Holland's gripping new translation.

One of New Zealand's favourite and bestselling novels

Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 12 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War.

A groundbreaking examination of a terrifying murder and its aftermath by the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake.

From the author of French Revolutions and Gironimo comes a hideously over-ambitious challenge on doomed machinery. Tim Moore cycles the length of the old Iron Curtain

Throughout history our societies have worked through networks - of information, friendship, professions, families - Niall Ferguson's new bestseller is a history of this remarkable aspect of human existence, from the networks that first allowed us to explore the oceans to today's hyper-linked world.

An unputdownable real-life political thriller set in the House of Commons.

A history of the Jews - from Moses to the present day - by one of the world's finest historians, shot through with his own sense of what it means to have a Jewish history.

Now a major Amazon Prime Video series starring Alec Baldwin and Jeff Daniels.

‘It might be the best book on animals I have ever read. It’s also the only one that made me laugh out loud.’ Helen Macdonald, author of His for Hawk

Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century.

A stunning tribute to aviation in New Zealand – a celebration of our planes and people.

The new novel by the number one bestselling author.

The irresistible book by Bill Bryson which does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science.

A bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti.

A spellbinding account of the first flight of the Space Shuttle, one of the great technological developments of the late 20th century