The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
Body Parts : Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in conn ...Show more
Polaroids From the Dead by Douglas Coupland
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.For years, Coupland's razor-sharp in ...Show more
The Essential Gesture - Writing, Politics & Places by Nadine Gordimer; Stephen Clingman (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Giants and Dwarfs - Essays, 1960-1990 by Allan Bloom
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A collection of essays on teachers, books and education, from the author of The Closing of the American Mind. In this book, current liberal theories of justice are criticized, the shortcomings of the modern university are analyzed and the works of Shakespeare, Swift and Plato are examined.
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays
The wonderful sequel to Bennett's diaries Writing HomeUntold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection since his number one bestseller, Writing Home, is a compendium of some of his very finest and funniest writing from the last nine years. The book includes significant unpublished work, including t ...Show more
On Extended Wings - An Adventure in Flight by Diane Ackerman
$7.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
After Bathing at Baxter's - Essay's and Notebooks by Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
This is a personal exploration of-and homage to-some of the important New Zealand poets and painters of the 20th Century , beginning-as the title suggests-with James K. Baxter. The author writes: ' After bathing, as a young man, in the Wanganui River of Baxter's poetry, much of my subsequent reading, wr ...Show more
The Devil Problem - And Other True Stories by David Remnick
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes ...Show more
The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings by Robert Fisk
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A selection of Robert Fisk's finest 'Comment' pieces from the Saturday Independent. Robert Fisk has amassed a devoted readership over the years, with his insightful, witty and always outspoken articles on international politics and mankind's war-torn recent history. He is best known for his writing abou ...Show more
Timeless World: A Collection of Essays by M H Holcroft
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: good