A Careful Revolution: Towards a Low-Emissions Future by David Hall (editor)
14.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
Climate change is happening and the potential long-term costs are incalculable. But how do we manage the short-term costs of mitigation? How do we undertake a low-emissions transition that wont undermine the public support that it relies upon? This book makes the case for a careful revolution and provid ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Essays
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
Life On Volcanoes by Janet McAllister (ed.)
25.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social and political discourse - housed within a small, covetable, high quality hard-cover book complete with colour illustrations. The contributors are Tze Ming Mo ...Show more
Granta 147 by Sigrid Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Granta 147 will be our Fortieth Birthday Special. This will be a celebratory issue featuring a collection of the best essays and fiction from the magazine's lauded history. It has now been forty years since Bill Buford, Jonathan Levi and Peter de Bolla relaunched Cambridge University's student publicat ...Show more
Nobody's Looking at You - Essays by Janet Malcolm
38.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: 4
Janet Malcolm's previous collection, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, was 'unmistakably the work of a master' (New York Times Book Review). Like Forty-One False Starts, Nobody's Looking at You brings together previously uncompiled pieces, mainly from The New Yorker and the New Yor ...Show more
Granta 146 - The Politics of Feeling by Dveroah Baum 9ed.); Josh Appignanesi (ed.)
27.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Granta 146 is guest-edited by Devorah Baum and Josh Appignanesi. We're living through hysterical times. Rage, resentment, shame, guilt and paranoia are everywhere surfacing, as is the intemperate adoration or hatred of popular but divisive public figures. Political discourse suffers when people seem to ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
24.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Wild Women & Their Amazing Adventures Over Land, Sea & Air by Mariella Frostrup (Editor)
55.00 NZD
Category: Essays
From Constantinople to Crimea, from Antarctica to the Andes, women throughout history have travelled across land and sea and recorded their adventures. This is a collection of more than 50 of the greatest escapades ever experienced and told by women. Curated by Mariella Frostrup, these works span the gl ...Show more
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul
39.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFEIn One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning o ...Show more
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon
32.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon-"one of contemporary literature's most gifted prose stylists" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winni ...Show more
Landfall 236 by Emma Neale (ed.)
30.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Landfall Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Featured artists: John Z Robinson, Justin Spiers, Susan Te Kahurangi King. Awards and competitions: Results and winning essays from the Landfall Essay Competition 2018, with judges report by Emma Neale, and results from the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize 2018, with judges report by David Egg ...Show more