Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand's Political Environment
8 best books like Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand's Political Environment (Nicky Hager): Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, The Luminaries, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, M Train, The Penguin History of New Zealand, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence, Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
| Author | William Finnegan |
| ISBN | 1594203474 |
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding...
| Author | Eleanor Catton |
| ISBN | 0316074314 |
It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried...
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
| Author | Kai Cheng Thom |
| ISBN | 0994047134 |
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 1101875100 |
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in...
| Author | Michael King |
| ISBN | 0143018671 |
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce a full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and...
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
| Author | Jess Hill |
| ISBN | 1760641405 |
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers: on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good.
‘You must get so frustrated...
Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life
| Author | Stuart Shanker |
| ISBN | 1594206090 |
The first parenting book to bring the science and psychology of children's behavior together to build brain/body awareness for self-regulation and success
Self-Reg is a ground-breaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child's emotions and behavior that serves...
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs....
