England Your England by George Orwell
7.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
25.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Utopia by Thomas More; China Miéville (Introduction by)
18.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More's Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men an ...Show more
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
55.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
In April 2015, catastrophic earthquakes left Nepal devastated. Over 7,000 people lost their lives and more than twice as many were injured. Hundreds of thousands were made homeless and UNESCO World Heritage sites were destroyed. HOUSE OF SNOW is the biggest, most comprehensive and most beautiful collect ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
37.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
37.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
"In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whethe ...Show more
Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J D Vance
35.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and pers ...Show more
Can You Tolerate This? - Personal essays by Ashleigh Young
30.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
An Elle Ultimate Summer Read' Beautiful, unusual and memorable ... I love this book' MAGGIE NELSON, author of THE ARGONAUTS In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Ashleigh Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway ye ...Show more
Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years by Andrew Solomon
40.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
In 1991 Andrew Solomon rode a tank into Red Square in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the coup after Gorbachev's resignation. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban; in 2014 he travelled to Myanmar to meet ex-political prisoners as the country slowly, fitfully p ...Show more
A Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks
25.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English" - has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection of hi ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The best of C. K. Stead's 'afternoon work': reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectures and opinion pieces. Every morning for the last thirty years, C. K. Stead has written fiction and poetry. Shelf Life collects the best of his afternoon work: reviews and essays, interviews and diaries, lectur ...Show more
Tales of Two Cities - The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York by John Freeman
37.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
In a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while 25 thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology of essays and stories is the literary world's response, ...Show more