Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
The Life Fantastic: Myth, History, Pop and Folklore in the Making of Western Culture by Noa Menhaim
50.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Explore the sprawling network of culture to discover the incredible ways in which ideas connect to shape the world we see today.These mind-blowing essays dig down to the roots of stories, myths and literary genres, travelling from art to politics to history to folklore, and from high to popular culture ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
37.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
Landfall 244 - Spring 2022 by Lynley Edmeades (editor)
30.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Landfall Ser.
Landfall is New Zealands foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. The 2022 Spring edition, Landfall 24 ...Show more
LRB Diary for 2023 by Alan Bennett
27.99 NZD
Category: Essays
This year's diary celebrates 40 years of Alan Bennett's own diary in the London Review of Books.
Somewhere We Are Human - Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings by Reyna Grande; Sonia Guiñansaca; Viet Thanh Nguyen (Foreword by)
49.99 NZD
Category: Essays
"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives." -Booklist Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen A uniqu ...Show more
No Place Like Home: An anthology about the places we come back to by Michele Mendelssohn, Various
19.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What makes a home, and when do we really feel at home? Is it a physical place, or something we all carry inside us wherever we go?Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book l ...Show more
Our Place in Nature: Selected Writings by Various, Zachary Seager
19.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With the natural world increasingly under threat, Our Place in Nature explores one of the most topical issues of our day; our appreciation of nature and recognition of our place in it.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beauti ...Show more
On Your Marks: Selected writings about all kinds of sports by Martin Polley, Various
19.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A sparkling anthology celebrating sport in all its variety; from elite rugby and football to rural games on the village green, from an exclusive golf club to the sheer pleasure of a bicycle ride. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. ...Show more
Needs Adult Supervision by Emily Writes
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Needs Adult Supervision is Emily Writes' take on growing up and feeling like a real adult. This book looks at the growing pains of kids and their parents and their attempts to navigate a world that's changing by the minute. Emily paints a vivid picture of all the feelings, fortunes and failures that com ...Show more
Why We Read by Various
24.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for ...Show more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
14.99 NZD
Category: Essays
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better. The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in someth ...Show more