Letters of Denis Glover by Sarah Shieff
$80.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Reading Level: near fine
Oh Christ, a bloody half-witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we say, or is there something deeper; could we write better verse in England, or here; or do the critics and professors just read a lot into what’s said th ...Show more
The Pulse Glass by Gillian Tindall
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human lives through time. Before ordinary doctors had access to accurate pocket watches, they timed a patient's pulse with a 30-second sandglass. A 'pulse glass' was a functional p ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$18.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
Collected Nonfiction: Selections from the Memoirs and Travel Writings: v. 2 by Mark Twain
$48.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
Twain's playful exuberance and remarkable storytelling gifts are on full display as he regales readers with his real-life adventures, some of them so outrageous they cannot be true - or can they? As Richard Russo says in his fascinating introduction, Twain was an 'inspired, indeed, unparalleled, bullshi ...Show more
Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
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