Working The Room - Essays and Reviews - 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music.Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more pers ...Show more
Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
$75.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Collected essays and speeches from the bestselling, Booker-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an incre ...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
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more