The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais
37.99 NZD
Category: Essays
In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the man ...Show more
The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
12.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. In her second volume of essays, ...Show more
Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami; Philip Gabriel (Translator); Ted Goossen (Translator)
34.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on ...Show more
Ngā Kupu Wero by Witi Ihimaera
36.99 NZD
Category: Maori Books
A powerful new collection of non-fiction by contemporary Māori writers. From over 60 Māori writers, Nga Kupu Wero brings together a bounty of essays, articles, commentary and creative nonfiction on the political, cultural and social issues that challenge us today. From colonisation to identity, from cr ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
34.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINE From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey ...Show more
Family: Stories of Belonging by Alaina Gougoulis, Ian See
40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
An uplifting collection of personal essays celebrating the various forms of family, featuring contributions from some of Australia's most exciting writers and thinkers The storybook idea of family-dad, mum, kids, gran and grandpa-doesn't always reflect the bonds that tie us most closely to one another ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
24.99 NZD
Category: Essays
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." --The Boston Globe Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national tre ...Show more
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about l ...Show more
Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women by The Big Issue, Jane Graham
39.99 NZD
Category: Essays
From The Big Issue's popular section, this collection features 50 remarkable women writing letters to their younger selves. If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Letter to My Younger Self is back with another incredible selection of letters from well-known figures. In this ...Show more
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A trailblazing collection of writing on contemporary Africa from across Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life - ranging from musings on politics and culture to deeply personal introspectionsBinyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and activist, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemp ...Show more
New Daughters of Africa by Various
48.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A landmark contemporary collection celebrating the work of 200 women writers of African descentNearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent.A glorious portrayal ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
37.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more