Jenny Diski - The Sixties by Jenny Diski
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dism ...Show more
The Cursed Bus and Other Writings by James West
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays by C J Hauser
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funn ...Show more
Thinking Allowed - The Best of Prospect 1995-2005 by David Goodhart
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Born in 1995 and dedicated to serious coverage of politics, ideas, science and arts every month, Prospect celebrates its 10th birthday this year. To mark this event, Thinking Allowed brings together the most brilliant, original and provocative pieces to have appeared in the magazine during the last ten ...Show more
Making an Elephant - Writing from Within by Graham Swift
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
In his first ever work of non-fiction, the Booker Prize-winning author of "Last Orders" and "Waterland" delivers a warm and generous account of what has influenced and inspired him over the years. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the mi ...Show more
Seth Rogen - Yearbook by Seth Rogen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. ...Show more
Axel's Castle - Essays on Yeats, Valery, T S Eliot, Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein by Edmund Wilson
$7.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Automatic Vaudeville - Essays on Star Turns with a New Essay on the Rolling Stones by John Lahr
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Chuck Klosterman - X - A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century by Chuck Klosterman
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade.Chuck Klosterman has created an incomparable body of work in books, magazines, newspapers, and on the Web. His writing spans the realms of culture a ...Show more
Roman Mornings by James Lees-Milne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City-Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo-the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces.
Image and Imagination - Essays and Reviews by C S Lewis
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Canto Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of ...Show more
Conversation - How talk can change your life by Theodore Zeldin
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good