Howdunit: a Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.Ninety crime writers from the world's oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and insights into su ...Show more
Independence: Vintage Minis by Charlotte Bronte
$9.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.'We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determi ...Show more
Iris and Me by Philippa Werry
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: near fine
One woman. One journey. One true friend. 'I reckon Iris would've approved' - Tina Shaw So begins the story of Iris Wilkinson, who wrote poetry, novels and journalism under the pen name Robin Hyde. In January 1938 she left New Zealand for England. On the way, intrigued by glimpses of China, she ventured ...Show more
Journey to Oxford by John Mulgan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literature
John Mulgan’s place in New Zealand literature rests on his acclaimed novel, Man Alone, and the war memoir, Report on Experience; but he wrote another work, part memoir, part reflective essay, which dealt with his departure from New Zealand (“a small country where loveliness goes often unregarded”) and h ...Show more
Jumping Ship and other essays by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: near fine
"A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pākehā and Māori, and on the practice of medicine...Includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Mātauranga te Tiriti; a keynote address for the English teachers ...Show more
K. by Roberto Calasso
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
In her fiction, Claire Messud has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicat ...Show more
King Arthur by Daniel Mersey
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Myths and Legends
From his court at Camelot, King Arthur ruled over a unified Britain in a mythical age of peace and prosperity. His glory, however, would be short-lived. For even as he drew the sword from the stone, a doom settled over Arthur that would see his kingdom fall to betrayal and war. In this book, Daniel Mers ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut - Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$28.99 NZD
Category: Literature
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt b ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
$9.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more
Loving All of It - Eminent New Zealanders Write About Growing Old by Gordon McLauchlan (editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
The late baby boomers are starting to reflect on ways to grow old well, and these 30 affecting pieces by prominent New Zealanders over the age of 65 serve as extremely strong pieces of autobiography, as inspiration and as meditation. No Zimmer frames and retirement homes for this lot. The contributors, ...Show more
Memories of Early Years and Other Writings by Douglas Lilburn
$29.99 NZD
$39.99 (25% off)
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Evocative writings about the formative years and music of New Zealand’s foremost classical composer, Douglas Lilburn. Most of these pieces have never before been published or collected: talks, reminiscences, essays, memoirs — of Rita Angus, Evelyn Page, Charles Brasch, Alex Lindsay, John Mansfield Thoms ...Show more