Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to the Present Day by Donald Keene (ed.)
34.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark work Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, the book includes concise i ...Show more
Black Is the Body - Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
40.00 NZD
Category: Literature
A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021 "Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my lif ...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
The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and Techniques by Henry Russell
34.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why th ...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
Windsor Diaries: A Childhood with the Princesses by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
**SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****A DAILY MAIL CHRISTMAS BOOKS PICK** 'A must if you love The Crown' Good Housekeeping 'For a glimpse into the lives of the young princesses these diaries are riveting' Daily Mail, Christmas Bo ...Show more
The Wild Isles: An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing by Patrick Barkham
55.00 NZD
Category: Environment
Acclaimed nature writer Patrick Barkham's anthology brings together the very best nature writing from every corner of the archipelago. From Thomas Hardy's idyllic 'Wessex' to Nan Shepherd's fiercely beautiful Cairngorm mountains, the British landscape has been imagined and reimagined through our litera ...Show more
A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
24.99 NZD
Category: Literature
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization, from the Library of Alexandria to Wikipedia. The story of alphabetical order has been shaped by some of history's most compelling characters, such as industrious and enthusiastic early adopter Samuel Pepys and dedicated alphabet cha ...Show more
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
38.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Undelivered Lectures
National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2020"Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging."--The New York Times"Serpell's vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again."--Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIf evolutionary biologists, ethical ...Show more
Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While by Sigrid Rausing
27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Four times a year, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best in contemporary fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry and photography from around the world.
Lines to the Horizon: Australian Surf Writing by Jock Serong Sally Breen Emily Brugman Sam Carmody Madelaine Dickie Jack Sandtner Mark Smith
38.00 NZD
Category: Literature
Tim Winton says, 'Surfing is not just a subculture, it is culture, and here's proof', while Jock Serong says that the collection demonstrates our horizons are unlimited. From Gold Coast surf culture to the relationships of humans to the sea and from surf travel in Mexico to Taj Burrow's final campaign ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
30.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more