For dad on his special day: Piccadilly Books
Check out these Father’s Day specials from Piccadilly Books, perfect for your dad, granddad or the special man in your life. Offers end Wednesday 7 September 2022.
Rare Whisky: Explore the World’s Most Exquisite Spirits
Patrick Mahe
Our price $85.00 RRP $100.00
A stylish and detailed exploration of the world’s finest and rarest whiskies, beautifully presented in a hardback book with a sturdy slipcase.
Boeing Metamorphosis Launching the 737 and 747, 1965-1969
John Fredrickson, John Andrew
Our price $55.00 RRP $65.00
John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers an insider look at the profound changes Boeing experienced in the 1960s as the product mix shifted from military hardware to jet-powered airliners.
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Robby Krieger
Our price $33.00 RRP $38.00
Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors. But now, after 50 years, the band’s notoriously quiet guitarist is finally breaking his silence to set the record straight.
The Slow Roll
Simon Lendrum
Our price $33.00 RRP $40.00
It seemed a simple request. “Can you find my daughter who has run away?”
But for professional gambler O’Malley, life isn’t that simple. There is murder, drug dealers, money launderers, gangs – a crime novel that has it all.
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath
Bill Browder
Our price $33.00 RRP $38.00 Bill Browder returns with a gripping thriller, chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s enemy by exposing his campaign to steal and launder billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot
Giles Whittell
Our price $33.00 RRP $40.00
Drawing on official documents, interviews, and unknown accounts, The Greatest Raid recreates in cinematic detail the hours in which the “Charioteers” fought and died.
Classic Jaguars in New Zealand – Grace Space Pace
Richard Waugh
Our price $60.00 RRP $80.00
Published for the 100th anniversary of Jaguar’s origins, this book tells the marque’s fascinating story, with informative New Zealand features, including owners’ experiences and superb photographs.
Ford Falcon Commemorative Edition: The Great Years, The Great Cars
Luke West
Our price $35.00 RRP $45.00
Ford Falcon Commemorative Edition celebrates the much-loved car’s six-decade rule of Aussie roads and racetracks. Capturing the stories from the men who designed, developed, built and raced these bred-for-Bathurst beasts.
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As for understanding the world today try reading a couple of insightful spy or mystery novels including Bill Browder’s Red Notice and Bill Fairclough’s Beyond Enkription. If you are clever enough (which we have no reason to doubt!) you will start dissecting and solving problems in ways you never dreamt of before.
Mystery novels cover all sorts of evils including thrillers from the espionage genre such as those down to earth, raw and noir, often curious fact based Cold War thrillers you can never put down. I refer to Bill Browder’s Red Notice, Bill Fairclough’s Beyond Enkription in The Burlington Files series and Ben Macintyre’s The Spy and the Traitor. The latter was lauded by none other than John le Carré as “the best true spy story I have ever read”.
Incidentally, if you don’t find these mysterious then MI6 or the CIA may want to hire you to solve some of their mysteries. After all, the most famous of all real spies, Oleg Gordievsky who is held responsible for collapsing the Berlin Wall, was not only Macintyre’s “Spy and Traitor” but also an acquaintance of Fairclough’s handler. Maybe that’s why Beyond Enkription is considered to be compulsory reading for espionage aficionados.