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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game by Robert McCrum
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the sh ...Show more
Globish : How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum
32.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not necessarily be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is, nevertheless, a form of universally recognised English - it is Globish. In his wonderfully witty and informative new book, Robert McCrum explores the ...Show more
Rites of Passage by William Golding; Robert McCrum (Introduction by)
16.00 NZD
25.00 (36% off)
Category: General fiction
With an introduction by Robert McCrumThe first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinkin ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
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