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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Literature
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
Southern Cross Crime by Craig Sisterson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Southern Cross Crime is the first comprehensive guide to modern Australian and New Zealand crime writing. From coastal cities to the Outback, leading critic Craig Sisterson showcases key titles from more than 200 storytellers, plus screen dramas ranging from Mystery Road to Top of the Lake. Fascinating ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literature
'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls ...Show more
Shining Land - Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris; Haru Sameshima
$45.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Shining Land brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima. It is the second in the kōrero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups, and designed to showcase leading New Zealand w ...Show more
The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinéad Gleeson (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literature
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpseis a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting ...Show more
Daily Rituals Women at Work - How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The much-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed and resoundingly fascinating Daily Rituals.Filled with the innovative, inspiring and wonderfully prolific accounts of some of the world's best female creators, Daily Rituals Women at Work is the powerful and championing sequel to Mason Currey's first book, ...Show more
Granta 152: Still Life by Sigrid Rausing
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new writing and art.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Literature
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster ...Show more
Lost Transmissions - The Untold History of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Desirina Boskovich; Jeff VanderMeer (Introduction by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy. Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works fr ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Words: A Journey Through the English Language (HB) by Paul Anthony Jones
$32.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word Drops What makes a place so memorable that it survives for ever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world jaunt, Paul Anthony Jones reveals the intriguing tales behind how 80 different places came to be im ...Show more
Tyrant - Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Literature
'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shake ...Show more
