Knock Knock: Confessions of a Kiwi Interviewer by Trish Palmer
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
Extraordinary stories from a lifetime spent conducting interviews. This is the world of the dreaded door-knock from the other side of the door. Trish Palmer has been working as an interviewer and area manager for market research companies for over 20 years, invited into the homes and private lives of a ...Show more
The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the man ...Show more
Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa by Katie Kerr (editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
On the periphery of Aotearoa New Zealand's publishing scene, there is a rich and varied cottage industry of small press publishers. They work in collaboration, in gaps between paid gigs and with the support of like-minded peers: poets who print, curators-cum-editors, self-publishing photographers, and c ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
The Grammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl by Mignon Fogarty
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: Quick and Dirty Tips Ser.
One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, <i>Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing</i>, hit the <i>New York Times</i> b ...Show more
Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic by Eliza M. Smith, Haley Swanson
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
A feminist anthology inspired by legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl, featuring twenty-four new essays on the triumphs and heartbreaks of modern singlehood from acclaimed and bestselling authors, including Kristen Arnett, Morgan Parker, Evette Dionne, and Melissa F ...Show more
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Reading Level: very good
A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, NewburyportThe worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers...Things Are Against Us is the first colle ...Show more
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading. Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages ...Show more
Cauld Blasts and Clishmaclavers: A Treasury of 1,000 Scottish Words (HB) by Robin A. Crawford
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
The Scots language is an ancient and lyrical tongue, one inherently linked to the country's history and identity, its land and culture. It is also a living and vital vernacular, used daily. Yet some of these words are beginning to fade away, their meaning and value disappearing. Robin Crawford has gathe ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more
An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays by Damon Salesa
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Series: 1st
In this captivating collection of essays, acclaimed Pacific scholar Damon Salesa takes us on a journey through the rich cultural and historical tapestry of the Pacific. From the far-reaching indigenous civilisations that flourished in Oceania, to the colonial encounters that shaped Samoa's history, and ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
24.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Late Essays is the last of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Flaubert and Goethe, Patrick White and Gerald Murnane. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.