The Edge of Memory - Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World by Patrick Nunn
33.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
We all know those stories that have been told in our families for generations. The ones that start 'Have I ever told you about your great-great-uncle...?' In some cultures these stories have been passed down for thousands of years and often reveal significant information about how the surrounding envi ...Show more
The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry
28.00 NZD
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What does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become--with illustrations throughout. In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson Perry trains his keen eye ...Show more
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
23.00 NZD
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Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he woul ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
9.00 NZD
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From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the beauty and joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a book Every book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional resonance. It is a meeting of three minds (the giver, the ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
40.00 NZD
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"Brilliant...[Smith's] new book is lively, intelligent and frequently hilarious, and proves that she's one of the brightest minds in English literature today...She considers Brexit and Key & Peele, J.G. Ballard and Jay-Z, Billie Holiday and Justin Bieber. Refreshingly, she does it all without the ki ...Show more
Ageless Soul by Thomas Moore
38.00 NZD
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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CARE OF THE SOUL COMES AN UPLIFTING MEDITATION ON THE ART OF GROWING OLDER `Thomas Moore convinces us that we age best when we embrace our age, live agelessly, and remember every day to find the endless joy nestled inside our soul'Dr Rudolph E. Tanzi, Profes ...Show more
False River: Stories/Essays/Secret Histories by Paula Morris
35.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Riffing on truth, lies and secrets, this collection uses fiction to explore fact, and fact to explore fiction. Fictional characters muse upon the truth behind real people, non-fiction pieces contain short interludes of fiction, fiction is written to read like an essay, made-up elements slip into true ac ...Show more
Outsiders - Five Women Writers who Changed the World - Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner,George Eliot, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley by Lyndall Gordon
38.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels. We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the ...Show more
White Mountain by Robert Twigger
28.00 NZD
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Home to mythical kingdoms, wars and expeditions, and strange and magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam and Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world's religions. They are also a plant h ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
38.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
33.00 NZD
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The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
33.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more