The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (HB) by Geoff Dyer
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily Telegraph. Much attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter wit ...Show more
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Reading Level: near fine
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso. Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper and wearing a mask - or not - was a decision mostly made on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy Go Lucky opens, h ...Show more
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son -- by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... Thi ...Show more
Things I Learned at Art School by Megan Dunn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Reading Level: very good
From the writer who brought you Tinderbox, a book about a woman trying to write a book, comes Things I Learned at Art School, a memoir by a woman who has never kept a diary. Until now. Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School ...Show more
The Marmalade Diaries - The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
From the author of The Gran Tour, a portrait of an intergenerational friendship. Recently widowed, Winnie, 84, was in need of some companionship. Someone to help with the weekly food shop and offer tips on the crossword. Ben, 34, was looking for a new housemate. As the UK was locked down in 2020, Ben ...Show more
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
Collected poems from one of the twentieth century's most influential voices.
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
Not so long ago, feeling intimations of mortality, Jan Morris embarked on a wholly novel literary enterprise. What began as a series of high-minded letters to her late daughter--in the style of Lord Chesterfield addressing his son--quickly transformed itself into a potpourri of mini-essays and vibrant r ...Show more
Things My Son Needs to Know About The World by Fredrik Backman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood.From the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove.'You can be whatever you want to be, but that's nowhe ...Show more
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
$51.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached w ...Show more
Fragments Of An Infinite Memory by Mael Renouard
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
"One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea-it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself-of doing a Google search to find out what I had been up to and where I had been the previous evening, since my own recollections were confused." So begins Mae Nl Renouard's ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes w ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more