On Histories & Stories - Selected Essays by A S Byatt
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A Writer's People: Ways of Seeing and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Nobel Prize winner writes candidly about cultural currents, ideas, experiences and the part they play in a life of writing. Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul
The Painted Kipper by Harman Grisewood
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The New Thinker's Library | Reading Level: very good
A Study of the Spurious in the Contemporary Scene
The Religio Medici and Other Writings by Sir Thomas Browne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Everyman's Library No. 92 | Reading Level: good
Winter Pollen - Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This volume contains writings by English poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998) that cover a period of over thirty years and include essays, book reviews, commissioned articles, prefaces, autobiographical reflections, and items never before published. He writes about Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Isaac Bashevis S ...Show more
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more
The Professor and Other Writings by Terry Castle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a collection of startling, gorgeously written autobiographical essays. [Castle] is a brilliant stylist, and everything she writes is gripping.--Edmund White.
Specimen - Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more
Strong Words 2019 - The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition by Emma Neale (Selected by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submissions made it impossible to choose. After a nails-bitten-to-the-quick struggle, she optimistically submitted her shortlist of 21 essays.The publisher had so ...Show more
Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift; Denis Donoghue (Editor)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Critical Anthologies Ser. | Reading Level: good
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith and Silcon Chips by Michael Gross
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Man From Nowhere & Other Prose by James McNeish
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good-very good