Marple: Twelve New Stories by Agatha Christie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Ea ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.'A wonderful essayist . . . Her new collection is replete with personal history and recollection, and sparkles with small descriptive ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN by LATOUR BRUNO
$65.00 NZD
Category: Essays
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of mode ...Show more
Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An Anthology of Literary Delights for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
$43.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year, Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life, it conta ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more
Here For a Good Time - Organised thoughts from a disorganised mind by Chris Parker
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Comedian Chris Parker brings his brilliant comic wit to the page. Star of stand-up, winner of Celebrity Treasure Island and lockdown Instagram sensation, Chris Parker shares a series of short stories, essays and musings. Chris has made a name for himself as an outspoken, witty and charming personality w ...Show more
You Probably Think This Song Is About You by Kate Camp
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win. ‘Never apo ...Show more
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write by Alex Johnson & James Oses
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work. The perennial question asked of all authors is How do you write? What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexi ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision mostly made on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy Go Lucky opens, ...Show more
Extraordinary Old Dogs: Uplifting True Tales of Remarkable Seniors by Laura Greaves
$40.00 NZD
Category: Dogs
Puppies are wonderful, but there is something truly special about an old dog. It's the grey muzzle and salt-and-pepper eyebrows; the face that says 'been there, sniffed that.' It's the plodding gait; the long naps in the sunshine; the undiminished wonderment at the beauty of the world. And more than any ...Show more