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.
Cult Writers by Ian Haydn Smith; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
27.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
In Cult Writers Ian Haydn Smith introduces 50 novelists deserving of a cult status. The literary genres and subjects explored within these writers’ pages are rich and diverse – acting as mirrors of their genius minds: from Irvine Welsh’s gritty Edinburgh streets, to Ken Kesey’s drug-fuelled madness; fro ...Show more
Dickens on France - Fiction, Journalism and Travel by John Edmondson (Editor)
14.99 NZD
39.99 (62% off)
Category: Literature
Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris. This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of affinity with the country that would take him back often and that would find express ...Show more
Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt
43.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Princeton Classics
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father. Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him throu ...Show more
30-Second Literature by Ella Berthoud
32.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: 30 Second
Whether you're looking for a new author or genre to explore, 30-Second Literature provides you with summaries of the major literary genres, styles and histories. Part of the 30-Second series, this introductory guide to literature is split into 7 chapters that cover: The History of Literature - from ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
29.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
'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
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
23.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books by Tom Mole
37.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves or store them in our attics. We give them as gifts. We write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. Books are f ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk about Books - The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price
44.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.
Granta 149 - The New Europe II by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
27.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Issue 149, 'New New Europe', marks the UK's departure from the EU, and features a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on the state of Europe today. This harks back to the 1989 issue 'New Europe', which was themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin wall.
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
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
42.99 NZD
Category: Literature
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...Show more