Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
'This is an unforgettable book, the kind where the author unapologetically bares her heart and asks you to hold it tenderly, with care.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex; a frank self-evaluation upon the occasion of o ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$23.00 NZD
Category: Essays
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A landmark memoir 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. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying ...Show more
Spinning a Line: NZ Writing About Fishing by Owen Marshall (ed.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fishing
The story goes that Maui hooked the North Island out of the sea from his waka, the South Island, so it is little surprise that fishing is much loved in New Zealand. Its appeal, though, is personal and the experiences it has engendered are as various as they are fascinating. Owen Marshall has netted a ca ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Canons Ser.
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul (HB) by STRAYED, CHERYL
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Across the world, millions of people have found life and depth in the words of Cheryl Strayed. Whether it has been in her bestselling memoir Wild or in her collection of advice on love and life, Tiny Beautiful Things, she has been a companion to those who feel alone, a balm to those who hurt, a co-consp ...Show more
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve ...Show more