Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir, 1956-1986 — Volume 2 by C.K. Stead
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: C. K. Stead Memoirs Ser. | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study a ...Show more
On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
20.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth of rejection, forms the essence of a writer's life. It ...Show more
The Modern Couple's Guide to Wedding Speeches by Heidi Ellert-McDermott
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Groom or bride, straight or gay. Nail the perfect words to say. There's no longer an excuse for wedding speeches to be a tedious succession of predictable platitudes, outdated etiquette and cheesy wedding gags. This book is for nearlyweds who want to make their wedding speeches one of the day's highligh ...Show more
New Myths and Old Politics - The Waitangi Tribunal and the Challenge of Tradition (BWB Texts) by Tipene O'Regan
18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Negotiating a claim before the Waitangi Tribunal can involve troubling challenges to an iwi's legitimacy, sometimes from unexpected places. In this unique behind-the-scenes account of the negotiation of Ngai Tahu's Waitangi Tribunal claim, Sir Tipene O'Regan describes what happened when claims of New Ag ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." --The Boston Globe Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national tre ...Show more
Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on leadership and character from Shakespeare and one of his greatest admirers by John Bell
33.00 NZD
Category: Psychology/Self-Help
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Around the globe people have been crying out for “Leadership”: demanding it, begging for it. From the farcical spectacle of short-lived Australian prime ministers shoving each other ...Show more
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
27.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You. This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't know anything. Irby is working in Chicago when the pandemic hits. After fleeing the city and returning home to Michigan, she finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her uppe ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things that Matter (A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition) by Peter Singer
30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A revised edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, featuring 37 new essays.A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays.Free speech and fake news, stopping Putin, pandemic ethics, climate change, extreme poverty, abortion, euthanasia, sports d ...Show more
Why Read by Will Self
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer
30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying ...Show more
Barefoot Years by Martin Edmond
15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
'The myriad of the living in all of their many forms, defunct, mutant, revenant or otherwise; traversing memory's infinite field.' Martin Edmond's Barefoot Years is a memoir in which the author attempts to re-inhabit the lost domain of childhood. It is evocative and poignant, detailed yet fragmentary, f ...Show more