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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
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: 3 Biography
'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in UlyssesWilliam Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting.Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was ta ...Show more
Penguin Classics: In Search of the Best Books Ever Written by Henry Eliot
$75.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. From The Epic of Gilgameshto the poetry of the First World War, and covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books and ...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
Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry; Nicholas A. Basbanes (Foreword by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Few collectors are as passionate about their quarry as collectors of rare books. Rebecca Rego Barry's Rare Books Uncovered relates 56 tales from the antiquarian paper trail. An expert on rare books, Barry recounts stories from a world of remarkable discoveries. Read about a stash of vintage comic books, ...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
Books That Saved My Life - Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life: forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry (Les Murray) and many of the world's great novels, from George Eliot's Midd ...Show more
Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature by Stuart Kells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literature
From acclaimed author and ardent bibliophile Stuart Kells comes an exploration of the quest to find the personal library of the world's greatest writer Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare' ...Show more
Forgotten Women: the Artists by Zing Tsjeng
$34.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - Independent The women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a ...Show more
How to Write a Novel - Bring Your Ideas to Life the Faber Academy Way by Richard Skinner
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Writing A Novel is not a set of rules and regulations. It is an atlas, a guide to finding your own way over the treacherous passes of your first novel. Pulling together his years of experience as a novelist and a teacher, Richard Skinner covers the basics of writing great fiction - narrators, character ...Show more
