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
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
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
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
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
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
An urgent call to build a new model for the pharmaceutical industry, from the multi-award-winning Times journalist. The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a S ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
The Dinner Table: Over 100 Writers on Food by Ella Kate; Risbridger Young
68.00 NZD
Category: Cooking - General | Series: Head of Zeus Anthologies Ser.
A deliciously moreish collection of the 100 finest pieces of writing on food, glorious food. In this big, beautiful anthology, award-winning writers Kate Young and Ella Risbridger present you with their ultimate fantasy dinner party. Here you'll find authors, cooks and poets from Laurie Colwin, Salman ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale (PB) by Martin Latham
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more