The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose by Helen Sword
40.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer's Diet is for you! It's a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness. Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis. Instead, ...Show more
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
35.00 NZD
Category: Literature
From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries--from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers--"this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again" (Booklist, starred review). Mystery Writers of ...Show more
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
35.00 NZD
Category: Literature
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her What if women had been the storytellers Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices ...Show more
Ireland: The Passenger by Various
36.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home.' - The TLS
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
24.00 NZD
Category: Literature
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more
The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think by Richard Buxton
45.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Myths That Shape the Way We Think Ser.
A sophisticated look into the eight Greek myths that remain the most relevant to us today, exploring their powerful cultural impact from their ancient origins to the present. The Greek myths have been retold countless times, first by the conquering Romans, then through the medieval and Renaissance eras ...Show more
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
24.99 NZD
Category: Literature
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowled ...Show more
Desire: 100 of Literature's Sexiest Stories by Mariella Erotic (ed.); Frostrup Review
42.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Anthos Ser.
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology series of 100 of literature's sexiest stories, chosen by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review. Strict mistresses, naughty maids, handsome gardeners and disarming strangers; literature is awash with love, sex and desire. This collection brin ...Show more
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Michael Y. Bennett
21.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: The\Fourth Wall Ser.
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shocked audiences and critics alike with its assault on decorum. At base though, the play is simply a love story: an examination of a long-wedded life, filled with the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and pain that accompany the passing of many years togethe ...Show more
White Magic by Elissa Washuta; Alex Barrow (Illustrator)
44.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year "Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin." --The New York Times Book Review Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists. Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta ha ...Show more
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year by Susie Dent
39.99 NZD
Category: Literature
'Susie Dent is a national treasure' Richard Osman'WORD PERFECT is a golden vaulted cave of fascinating and funny hidden gems' JO BRANDWelcome to a year of wonder with Susie Dent, lexicographer, logophile, and longtime queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner.From the real Jack the Lad to the theatrically ...Show more
The Fairy Tellers by Nicholas Jubber
37.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy Tellers, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores the secret history of fairy-tales: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged ...Show more