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What Sort of Man? Stories by Breton Dukes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays | Reading Level: near fine
A young father high on Ritalin longs to leap into the tiger enclosure. A teacher who has been stood down for accessing porn on a school computer wants to re-establish contact with his teenage daughter. A carer out on a day trip is desperate to find a working toilet for his adult charge. What Sort of Man ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$44.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays
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
High Wire by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
$45.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays | Series: Korero Ser.
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrato ...Show more
Slow Down: Bring Calm to a Busy World with 50 Nature Stories by Rachel Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays
All around us, nature is turning, growing...and working. Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. But it's not always easy to see them... Discover 50 nature stories, paused just long enough for you to watch them unfold. Then go outside and explore... and see what yo ...Show more
Funny Ha, Ha by Paul Merton (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays
80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to have a laugh. Here, award-winning comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton brings tog ...Show more
Last 100 Days by Sarah Wearne
$29.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays | Series: Epitaphs of the Great War Ser.
Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in a collection that presents headstone inscriptions from the graves of soldiers killed during World War I. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters, these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact emotion c ...Show more
Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics by Virago Press
$39.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rachel Cooke | Zadie Smith | Anita Desa ...Show more
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game by Robert McCrum
$37.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays
'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
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
$26.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Essays
Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? As a no ...Show more
A Curious Invitation by Suzette Field
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism
Since ancient times human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that writers have written about these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in love, fall out ...Show more
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she h ...Show more
Granta 114 : Aliens : 114 by John Freeman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism | Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing