Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler
$29.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literature
They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger. From lauded writer and tea ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literature
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumesProust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A prof ...Show more
Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Lesser Wendy, Wendy Lesser
$39.99 NZD
Category: Literature
For nearly four decades, Wendy Lesser’s primary source of information about three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—was mystery and crime novels, and the murders committed and solved in their pages. Having never visited the region, Lesser constructed a fictional Scandinavia, something b ...Show more
Second Violins - New Stories Inspired by Katherine Mansfield by Marco Sonzogni
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Among the numerous pieces of writing that Katherine Mansfield produced during her short life, there were fifteen stories that were not completed on her death but which she had intended for inclusion in her collection named after one of them, The Dove's Nest. This fourth volume of her stories, reproduced ...Show more
Shelf Life by C.K. Stead
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
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
Shelf Life: Writers on books and reading by Alex Johnson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Books: reading, collecting, and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy and stress for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with our library, and the desperate troubles we will undergo to preserve it. With Alex Johnson as your guide ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. <b><i>Somewhere Becoming Rain</b></i> gathers all of James’s writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time. The greatness of Larkin’ ...Show more
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: near fine
Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of the twentieth century, together with extra material now published for the first time.The greatness of Larkin's poetry continues to be obscured by th ...Show more
Speaking Frankly: the Frank Sargeson Memorial Lectures 2003-2010 by Sarah Shieff
$31.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Frank Sargeson (1903 - 1982) was mentor to many of our past and current writers, including Janet Frame, C.K. Stead, and Kevin Ireland. Commemorating him, the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship is awarded annually. The lectures range from his generosity, how the Great New Zealand novel developed, the in ...Show more
Story of Alice; Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
$46.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage - a short cut for all that is beautiful and confusing; a metaphor used by artists, writers and politicians for 150 years. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject: of Charles Dodgson, the quiet academic, and his second ...Show more