Table Talk: Opinions, stories and a play by C K Stead
45.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The Times Sir: The year in letters by The Times
28.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The perfect gift for anyone with a shrewd sense of humour. Decidedly absurd, and always entertaining, revel in the very best letters to The Times. From umbrella protocol at the Coronation to growing cress in lunar soil, this collection lets you in on more than a few inside jokes from one of Britain’s l ...Show more
The Best American Magazine Writing 2023 by Sid Holt (Editor)
38.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The Best American Magazine Writing 2023 offers a selection of outstanding journalism on timely topics, including inequalities and injustices pressuring families, especially mothers. Rozina Ali tells the story of a U.S. marine who unlawfully adopted an Afghan girl and her family's efforts to bring her ho ...Show more
Why Read by Will Self
28.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Granta 165: Deutschland
37.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Granta is a literary magazine founded in 1889. Read the best new fiction, poetry, photography, and essays by famous authors, Nobel winners and new voices.
100 Novels That Changed the World by Colin Salter
55.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times - Homer's Iliad ...Show more
The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman; Silvia Killingsworth
43.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman. "In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medici ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
43.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
43.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: Best American Ser.
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted," writes gue ...Show more
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
25.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works. From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen, 50 Literatu ...Show more
Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind by MATTHEW M J C
40.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Did you know that the reason you can never find the end of a rainbow is because they are actually full circles? Or that our fingers shrivel up when they get wet because our bodies are adapting to give us a better grip in the water? Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Mind features unlikely and hilarious triv ...Show more