On Writing - A memoir of the craft by Stephen King
$14.00 NZD
Category: Writing | Reading Level: good-very good
This text offers a unique insight into the life of Stephen King. It explores what books and films influenced him as a young writer, his first idea for a story and the true-life tale that inspired Carrie. The book also takes the reader through all the basic skills of writing.
The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice - First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 by Allen Ginsberg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
These are the earliest journals and never-before-published poems of legendary Beat Generation avatar and poet extraordinaire Allen Ginsberg.
James Baldwin - Artist on Fire by W. J. Weatherby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
A long-time friend of the writer and social critic traces his development and journey from Harlem, to Paris, and finally back to America and discusses his lifelong dedication to articulate the intricacies of race relations and human struggle.
Searching for Schindler - A Memoir by Thomas Keneally
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic an ...Show more
Living To Tell The Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: good-very good
In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the st ...Show more
No Gifts from Chance - Edith Wharton , A Biography by Shari Benstock
$25.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Mason: The Life of R. A. K. Mason by Rachel Barrowman
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The full story of the gifted but troubled R A K Mason is told for the first time in this accessible biography. The puzzling reasons after his extraordinary beginning that Mason almost completely stopped writing poetry are investigated. The legendary story of how Mason dumped 200 copies of his first book ...Show more
Margaret Mahy - A Writer's Life by Tessa Duder
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Mahy needs no introduction to anyone reading or working in the area of children?s literature over the past forty years.Twice winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, and twice short listed for the Hans Christian Anderson Award, amongst numerous other awards and achievements, she is universally ...Show more
Moments of Invention - Portraits of 21 New Zealand Writers by Greg O'Brien
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the 1950s and early 1960s - a very different time - and ends in 1962, when she boards a ship for London, to study at the Royal Acade ...Show more