Puss in Books: Our Best-Loved Writers on their Best-Loved Cats (HB) by Paul Magrs
$28.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M. MontgomeryThis collection of quotes from the literary greats explore ...Show more
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook
$33.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
The essays in The Art of Libromancy explore the politics, philosophies, technologies, emotional experience, and craft of selling books in the twenty-first century. In a society filled with misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda, true storytelling and story-reading are more ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - The Heart-Warming Korean Sensation by Hwang Bo-reum; Shanna Tan (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a boo ...Show more
How To Resist Amazon And Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! 2nd edition by Danny Caine
$38.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia | Series: Real World Ser.
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner ...Show more
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
Why bookstores matter and how we can helpCan bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and the source of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our commun ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
$37.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
Literary Cats by JUDITH ROBINSON, SCOTT PACK
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
‘Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.’ - Viv GroskopCats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved children’s books, and from classic tales to contemporary no ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Satoshi Yagisawa
$28.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
My Book Club Journal: A Reading Log of the Books I Loved, Loathed, and Couldn't Wait to Talk About by Weldon Owen
$35.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
Enhance your reading life and reflect on your latest book reads with this beautifully illustrated guided journal. My Book Club Journal is a place to keep all your thoughts and feelings about your recent reads with guided prompts and space to record your reflections. Dedicated sections for notes on chara ...Show more
Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books by Brian Lake
$28.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons... and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest books ever published is a treat for all bibliophiles, bo ...Show more
The Writer's Library - The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl; Jeff Schwager
$35.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
NEW & NOTEWORTHY THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in th ...Show more
Bibliomaniac by Robin Ince
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia
In this warm and witty celebration of the written word, the popular comedian and presenter takes the reader on a journey across Britain as he explores his lifelong love of books and bookshops. Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Bri ...Show more