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Granta 148 by Sigrid Rausing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
New fiction from Andrew O'Hagan, Elif Shafak, Adam Foulds, David Means, Jem Day Calder, Magododi OuMphela Makhene, Caroline Albertine Minor, Thomas Pierce, Adam O'Fallon Price, Amor Towles. And Tom Bamforth on the refugee camp in Bangladesh known as 'Cox's Bazaar'. Published in book form four times a y ...Show more
A Shakespeare Motley - An Illustrated Compendium by The Shakespeare The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
A Shakespeare Motley is a delightful cabinet of Shakespearean curiosities, arranged in alphabetical order, that will inform, enthuse, intrigue, and amuse anyone who wants to know more about the life and work of the world's best-known author. Drawing unusual connections, this ingenious guide will show yo ...Show more
Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism | Reading Level: near fine
____________________________ PRE-ORDER NOW- AVAILABLE 3rd SEPTEMBER 2020 Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very amusing guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawi ...Show more
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
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
$19.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
The Book Lover's Quiz Book by Gary Wigglesworth
$35.00 NZD
Category: Games
'Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm' Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, Question Time and many more This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
'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 them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls ...Show more
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism & Essays & Journalism
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about ...Show more
Fall of the House of Byron - Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'A hauntingly beautiful portrait of the Byron dynasty' Rebecca Rideal 'Combining new research with a pacy narrative, Emily Brand introduces the glamorous and flawed Byron dynasty-William, the 'Wicked Lord', pleasure-seeking Isabella, and 'Mad Jack'-a family inheritance to match the wildest imaginings o ...Show more