On Your Marks: Selected writings about all kinds of sports by Martin Polley, Various
20.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
A sparkling anthology celebrating sport in all its variety; from elite rugby and football to rural games on the village green, from an exclusive golf club to the sheer pleasure of a bicycle ride. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. ...Show more
From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium by Justin Sayre
50.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium is a celebration of the rich legacy of LGBTQIA+ culture, told through the letters of the alphabet, based on the five-part show The gAybcs.From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, author Justin Sayre offers his own perspective on the things ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
60.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
65.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, t ...Show more
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
37.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? What has Meg and Mog got to do with Polish embroidery? Why is death in picture books so often represented by being eaten? We've read Green Eggs and Ham, laughed at Mr Tickle and whetted our appetites with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But what lies behind t ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
28.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
From the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.
Dinner on Monster Island - Essays by Tania De Rozario
43.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters an ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe
40.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the ...Show more
The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends by Camilla Townsend
35.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Myths Ser.
From their remote origins as migrating tribes to their rise as builders of empire, the Aztecs were among the most dynamic and feared peoples of ancient Mexico, with a belief system that was one of the most complex and vital in the ancient world. Historian Camilla Townsend returns to the original tales, ...Show more
Creative Writer's Sourcebook: 50 Great Authors & 175 Writing Exercises by John Gillard
40.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Discover 50 of the world’s greatest writers in this inspirational guide to exceptional writing. From Lynley Dodd to Peter Carey, profiles explore acclaimed writers’ style and work, then 175 writing exercises help you learn from them as you play with perspective, perfect characterisation, and craft openi ...Show more
Granta 166 - Generations by Thomas Meaney
37.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, zoomers: the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have become stark to the point of parody. Granta 166 tests the limits of each generation's given definition in popular culture against the reality of its most sharply observed fiction. Stories by Andr ...Show more