Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser.
Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language.Who was SWEET FANNY ADAMS?What's the dramatic true story ...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
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her What if women had been the storytellers Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices ...Show more
My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English by Caroline Taggart, J. A. Wines
20.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: I Used to Know That ...
A runaway hit and Sunday Times bestseller in 2008, My Grammar and I has continued to grow in popularity, becoming the go-to guide for grammar. Repackaged with a fresh jacket design, this much-loved gift title is now available in paperback, for new readers and fans of the series alike. My Grammar and I 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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