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Around the World in 80 Words: A Journey Through the English Language 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
Landfall 237 - Autumn 2019 by Emma Neale
$30.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Landfall Ser.
Featured artists: Sharon Singer, Ngahuia Harrison, Peter Trevelyan. Awards & Competitions: Results and winning essays from the 2019 Charles Brasch Young Writers Essay Competition, and judges report by Emma Neale. Writers: John Adams, Peter Bland, Laura Borrowdale, Bill Bradford, Iain Britton, Medb C ...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
Granta 147 by Sigrid Rausing
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature | 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
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Alabama, 1972. Reverend Willie Maxwell, a charismatic, authoritative black preacher, is suspected of murder. His past two wives, brother, nephew and stepdaughter have all died in suspicious circumstances. There are whispers of secret voodoo practices, and suspicion of life insurance fraud. Despite the ...Show more
The Writing Life - Twelve New Zealand Authors by Deborah Shepard
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literature
A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with ...Show more
Yours Ever - People and Their Letters by Thomas Mallon
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literature
"A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Everexplores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sevigne s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald s tormented advice to his young daughter ...Show more
Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher
$65.00 NZD
Category: Literature
______________________ A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES - THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE UNSPOKEN - from the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note. Discover speeches that altered the course of history, like NELSON MANDELA's on the day ...Show more
First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literature
'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences ... Any writer should read it' Bee Wilson 'Thoughtful, engaging, and lively ... when you've read it, you realise you've changed your attitude to writing (and reading)' John Simpson, formerly Chief Editor of t ...Show more
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Literature
In over thirty essays, written over twenty years, one of the world's great storytellers meditates on storytelling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the origin and composition of Philip Pullman's own stories, ...Show more
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Ser.
From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Sha ...Show more
This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Pelican Bks.
'I admire the freshness and attack of her writing, the passion and curiosity that light up the page. The book does something very important - it makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other ...Show more
