Bushido: the Soul of Japan (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Inazo Nitobe
13.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'. O ...Show more
The Art of Solitude: Selected Writings by VARIOUS
22.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or ...Show more
Why Friendship Matters: Selected Writings by Various
22.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about friendship from your favorite classic authors.Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship - from the strength of its b ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
38.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
18.99 NZD
Category: Essays
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
44.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
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
Landfall 240 by Neale Emma
30.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. It showcases new fiction and poetry, as well as biographical and critical essays, reviews and cultural commentary. Landfall 240 also features the winner of the 2020 Landfall Essay Competition as well as judges' comments. ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
17.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
Health Law in New Zealand by P. D. G. Skegg; Ron Paterson; Joanna Manning; John Dawson; N. S. Peart; Louise Delany; Morag McDowell
350.00 NZD
Category: Essays
An invaluable source of scholarly and practical commentary, Health Law in New Zealand is the leading account of the law relating to medical and health care law in New Zealand. Health Law in New Zealand examines a complex area of specialisation, encompassing a broad range of personal health and public he ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
24.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
The Girl from Revolution Road by Ghazaleh Golbakhsh
36.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A young first-generation Iranian immigrant in New Zealand speaks powerfully of displacement, being different and living between two worlds. Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh's experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trau ...Show more