James Courage Diaries by Chris Brickell
45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries F ...Show more
City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do any of us--humans, animals, trees--find a forest we can call home? In these moving, thought-provoking essays Sophie Cunningham considers the meaning ...Show more
After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime Spanning the 1930s to present day, After Agatha charts the explosion in women's crime writing and ...Show more
Assignment Moscow - Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers
39.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off. From the revolutionary period of the First World ...Show more
Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
The searing essay collection by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist and social critic in paperback for the first time. In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment ...Show more
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
Twenty-First Century Tolkien - What Middle-Earth Means to Us Today by Nick Groom
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
A collection of candid, entertaining letters, spanning thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy. Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity ev ...Show more
Braided River by Comer Diane
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
The Braided River explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different countries, spanning all ages and life stages. The first book to examine migration through the lens of the personal essay, The Braided River presents mig ...Show more
Creative Schools by Ken Robinson
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
From the international bestselling author of The Element Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education. In this inspiring, empowering book, he sets out a new vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish. Filled with practical examples and g ...Show more
Granta 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
33.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.