Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
England Your England - Notes on a Nation by George Orwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
This new collection brings together four of Orwell's short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society.
Encounters and Collisions by Gordon McLauchlan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
It was widely reported, when he died earlier in 2020, that Gordon McLauchlan’s last book was "Stop the Clock" but, in fact, he was finalising details of Encounters until several days before his death in January. In 26 engaging and provocative essays, Gordon McLauchlan writes about people, illustrious an ...Show more
I Want To Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more from the charming and wickedly funny creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. "It's nice to know someone as talented as Rachel is also pretty weird. If you're like me and love ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$13.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of de ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Essays | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
John Flory is a disillusioned timber merchant based in the remote town of Kyauktada in 1920s Burma. Whilst his English peers gather night after night to drink and gossip in their exclusive club, Flory has embraced local life - his best friend is Dr Veraswami and his mistress is Ma Hla May. The slow, sti ...Show more
Orwell and England: Selected Essays by George Orwell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England brings together some ...Show more
Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Description: `The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in s ...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
Map for the Heart: Ida Valley Essays by Jillian Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the Ida Valley where she lives, and follow the Manuherekia River from the mountains to its confluence with the Clutha/Mata-au. Her aim was to not only explore the ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers f ...Show more