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Impossible Owls - Essays from the Ends of the World by Brian Phillips
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
From its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, IMPOSSIBLE OWLS leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality. Brian Phillips takes us to a sumo tournament in Japan, the jungle in India, the studio of a great Russian animator, a royal tour of the Yukon Terri ...Show more
Notes On A Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
$24.00 NZD
Category: Essays
The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The HumansThe societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill. It very often feels that the way we live is almost engineered to make us unhappy. Whether it is our attitudes toward sleep, the marketing ...Show more
Vesper Flights 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
Constellations - Reflections from Life by Sinéad Gleeson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays
'I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.' How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the s ...Show more
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursui ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Hachette Essentials) by David Sedaris
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt) Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is caus ...Show more
Figuring by Maria Popova
$34.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and ...Show more
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays
From one of Britain's most original writers, White Sands is a creative exploration of why we travel. Episodic, wide-ranging, funny and smart, the linked journeys recall the themes of Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It - - albeit with the wisdom of (middle) age. From a trip to the Ligh ...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
Devotions - The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
$42.50 NZD
Category: Essays
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expoun ...Show more
