Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants - we use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this book.
The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
38.00 NZD
Category: Literature
The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
75.00 NZD
Category: Literature
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, rad ...Show more
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
42.99 NZD
Category: Literature
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truth ...Show more
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and Witticisms from Her Writings by Susan Hart-Byers
22.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The enduring appeal of Jane Austen's fiction is captured in this beautifully illustrated pocket-size collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works The novels of Jane Austen are famed for their ability to perfectly convey the nuances of social interactions in the Regency period. Perhaps what m ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
24.99 NZD
Category: Literature
"A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."--James Shapiro When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, the First F ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale (PB) by Martin Latham
26.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller'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 ...Show more
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by New York Times Times
90.00 NZD
Category: Literature
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publicat ...Show more
PEN International: An Illustrated History by Edited by Carles Torner and Jan Martens
100.00 NZD
Category: Literature
'I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.' Harold Pinter, English PEN President and L ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
48.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Literature in 30 Seconds or Less!: 100 Classics Cut Down for the Pace of the Modern World by Tim Rayborn
28.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Build your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works. Bursting with illuminating synopses of humanity's great works, you no longer have to lower your gaze when the conversation turns to the classics. Instead, you&am ...Show more
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie (Editor); Don Paterson (Editor)
55.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A timeless gift edition of the greatest poetic works from Scotland's literary past, present and future. Edited by award-winning poets Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Peter Mackay.