Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays
*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
Heartland: What is the future of modern love? by Jennifer Pinkerton
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Based on interviews across Australia, Heartland guides readers through the intimate world of love, dating, and sex among millennials. From hard and fast hook-ups to loneliness, deep love and even climate change stress, I want to understand the whole gamut of modern love. I want to know the heartland.Stu ...Show more
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays
This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living - and sometimes thriving (sometimes not) - with anxiety. 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritch ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$48.00 NZD
Category: Essays
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays
From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Sol ...Show more
The Stories Female Journalists Tell by Reta Lee
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays
30 female journalists in Southeast Asia share their personal experiences in essays spanning politics, culture, travel, human interest and lifestyle.In these insightful and compelling essays, the former and current journalists take us through the journey as a woman covering news in male-dominant newsroom ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
$33.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
Woman in Love - Katherine Mansfield's Love Letters by Katherine Mansfield; Nicola Saker (ed.)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Katherine Mansfield’s short stories are loved by readers around the world. Her letters also showcase the shining quality of her writing, her powers of observation and her humour. This collection of ‘love letters’ casts its net wide, capturing love in its many forms. There are letters to lovers, but also ...Show more
Bloody Woman - Essays by Lana Lopesi
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays
This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women's experiences and the Pacific. These essays lead into the messy and the sticky, the whi ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
"Intimations captures the uneasiness of our modern moment as Smith reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and relates it to issues of privilege and inequity. Her urgent voice tackles everything from what becomes important during isolation to the global response to George Floyd's killing. The author asks ques ...Show more