The Spinoff Book by Toby Manhire
38.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Five years ago, The Spinoff burst onto New Zealand's media scene with smart, screamingly funny and seriously relevant writing. Since then, it has enraged and inspired all the right people, respectably won Website of the Year at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards, and expanded into television, podcasts and no ...Show more
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
24.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes - both human and literary - th ...Show more
The Hero: The Enduring Myth That Makes Us Human by Lee Child
19.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: TLS Bks. | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?'- Karin Slaughter'. I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' - The Times In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher ...Show more
Strong Words 2019 - The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition by Emma Neale (Selected by)
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submissions made it impossible to choose. After a nails-bitten-to-the-quick struggle, she optimistically submitted her shortlist of 21 essays.The publisher had so ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
29.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Science by Ian McEwan
9.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Our Women on the Ground - Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Edited by Zahra Hankir
40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat - female journalis ...Show more
Pen in Hand - Reading, Rereading and Other Mysteries by Tim Parks
32.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challeng ...Show more
To Read Aloud by Francesco Dimitri
25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the practice was once a common pleasure for adults too. The time has come to rediscover it. This simple yet powerful action connects us with our friends, helps us centre ...Show more
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
75.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Collected essays and speeches from the bestselling, Booker-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an incre ...Show more
Rebellious Daughters by Maria Katsonis & Lee Kofman (edited by)
37.99 NZD
Category: Essays
Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia's most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the ex ...Show more
Beyond These Shores - Aotearoa and the World (BWB Texts) by Nina Hall
14.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
In recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. This book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealands role in the world. It sparks a co ...Show more