We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
28.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Letter To My Younger Self: The Big Issue Presents... 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives by Jane Graham, The Big Issue
28.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
100 remarkable people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business write letters to their younger selves in this collection taken from The Big Issue's popular feature. ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE If you could write a letter to your younger self, what ...Show more
The Joy of Small Things by Hannah Jane Parkinson
25.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self Help/Philosophy
Drawn from the popular Guardian column these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days.Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is ...Show more
A Therapeutic Library: 100 Essential Books That Teach Fulfilment, Calm and Wellbeing by The School of Life
60.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self-Help
Recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment. Books, however familiar, are amongst the strangest objects on the planet: little portals that open directly into the ideas, feelings, loves and sorrows of writers from all times and places. ...Show more
Circus of Dreams - Adventures in the 1980s Literary World by John Walsh
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing - the Establishment writers of the 1950s. It began w ...Show more
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
38.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more