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Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
37.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
37.00 NZD
38.00 (2% off)
Category: General Fiction
Ah Venice! The canals, palazzos, gondoliers, vaporetti...the bellinis. Jeff Atman, hack writer, is in town for the Biennale. Ostensibly to fulfil a freelance commission, actually to attend as many parties and soak up as much free booze as logistically possible. Then he meets Laura. Suddenly, amid the co ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city, another assignme ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
25.00 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: Travel Writing
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book."--Chr ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexi ...Show more
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
55.00 NZD
Category: Photography
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
Ten Poems about Art by GEOFF DYER
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer's remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes. We find ourselves ...Show more
The Contest of the Century - The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
50.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new na ...Show more
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
37.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...Show more
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In his latest book, Geoff Dyer returns to his favourite subject
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do it by Geoff Dyer
27.99 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In his latest book, Geoff Dyer returns to his favourite subject