Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Dear Girls - Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mum comics on stage but ...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
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$34.00 NZD
Category: Essays
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...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
A Conversation with My Country: Where We've Come From. Where We Can Go by Alan Duff
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A personal account reviewing an eventful life and an amazing country. Following Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff wrote his hard-hitting book Maori- The Crisis and the Challenge in 1993. His controversial comments shook the country. A quarter of a century later, New Zealand and Maoridom are in a very differ ...Show more
Is It Bedtime Yet? 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 are ...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 expe ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Popular Penguins
A Room of One's Own grew 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 t ...Show more
Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother in the 21st century. It seems so different from the experience we had of our grandmothers. Although perhaps the human essential, love, hasn't shifted much? In thoughtful, provok ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Figuring by Maria Popova
$40.00 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