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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
Out of the Forest by Gregory Smith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literature
For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus ...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
Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female e ...Show more
Reading the Seasons: Books Holding Life and Friendship Together by Germaine Leece, Sonya Tsakalakis
$37.99 NZD
Category: Literature
It's an old cliché that books 'transport you'; but as any avid reader will tell you, there's far more to them than that. Alongside comfort and retreat, books offer insight into ourselves and others; they tell us how the world is, was or might be; they are windows into other worlds, whose meanings resona ...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
The Assassin's Cloak - An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists by Irene Taylor (Editor); Alan Taylor (Editor); Taylor, Alan Taylor
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A beautiful and updated edition of this collection of the world's greatest diarists on its twentieth anniversary.
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
The Book Club Journal - All the Books You've Read, Loved, and Discussed by Adams Media
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Keep track of your book club selections and record your latest literary adventures with this reading journal to stay organized for your next meeting Book clubs are a great way to read new books and discover different genres and new topics that you may not be too familiar with. You can share your th ...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
Cold Warriors - Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White
$29.99 NZD
Category: Literature
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. ...Show more
