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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
Specimen: Personal Essays by Madison Hamill
$30.00 NZD
Category: Ockham NZ Book Awards Finalists
A father rollerblading to church in his ministerial robes, a university student in a leotard sprinting through fog, a trespass notice from Pak'nSave, a beautiful unborn goat in a jar . . . In scenarios ranging from the mundane to the surreal, Madison Hamill looks back at her younger selves with a sharp ...Show more
A Room Of One's Own (Popular Penguin) by Virginia Woolf
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Popular Penguins
A Room of One's Owngrew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over th ...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
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
Rants in the Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another by Emily Writes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
Popular blogger Emily Writes gives words of encouragement to sleep-deprived parents everywhere. With two small boys, both non-sleepers, Emily finds herself awake in the wee small hours night after night. Her writing is often done then, and she offers her own often hilarious and always heart-warming exp ...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
The Fire This Time - A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America. In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of wri ...Show more
Calypso by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you ...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
Is It Bedtime Yet? Parenting ... the Hilarious, the Hair-raising, the Heart-breaking by Emily Writes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
A collection of writings on being a parent in Aotearoa - from hilarious to heart-breaking. The experience of parenthood is different for everyone. And every day can be different too. Read a hilarious and moving collection of perspectives from the well-loved Emily Writes and her friends. Some of them ar ...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
