Mastering the Process - From Idea to Novel by Elizabeth George
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful--and prolific--novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing both nationally ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
27.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
'This is an unforgettable book, the kind where the author unapologetically bares her heart and asks you to hold it tenderly, with care.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex; a frank self-evaluation upon the occasion of o ...Show more
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama) by C. S. Lewis
45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in world history, providing deep insight into some of the greatest writers of the age, including Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, William Tyndale, John Knox, Dr. Johnson, Richard Hooker, Hug ...Show more
Bedside Companion for Food Lovers: An Anthology of Mouthwatering Literary Morsels for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
A mouthwatering anthology of food in literature, encompassing fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, and even a smattering of recipes, with one piquant extract for every night of the year. This absorbing book is a literary feast for every food lover - and who isn't? You'll discover a wealth of foodi ...Show more
Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Maus Now: Selected Writing by Hillary Chute (editor)
55.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these pract ...Show more
Love in the Blitz - A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander
28.00 NZD
Category: History
'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced ... Splendid' William Boyd, Guardian 'Eileen is a ...Show more
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
Too Famous - The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting by Michael Wolff
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal attention became one of the world's most valua ...Show more
Tranquillity and Ruin by Danyl McLauchlan
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Reading Level: near fine
Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the hidden truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn’t really exist. In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier – ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey - English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post ______________________ In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to sh ...Show more