No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens. Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now s ...Show more
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until ...Show more
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn''Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them' Ian RankinRick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The t ...Show more
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the continuing life of books, and about the ways in which our lives can change and our dreams can come true, if only we insist on believing in changes and dreams' Michael Cunningham, ...Show more
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own undervalued novels'D. J. TAYL ...Show more
The Writer's Journey: In the Footsteps of Literary Greats by Travis Elborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading | Series: Journeys of Note Ser.
Follow in the footsteps of some of the world's most famous authors on the journeys which inspired their greatest works in this beautiful illustrated atlas. Some truly remarkable works of literature have been inspired by writers spending time away from their typical surroundings. From epic road trips ...Show more
Raymond Chandler - The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
$28.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the d ...Show more
A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter
$33.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting). Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo... 'Never bettered.' Guardian 'W ...Show more
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd (Edited by) , Enrico Terrinoni (Edited by) , Catherine Wilsdon (Edited by)
$33.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings the ...Show more
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
$26.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various ...Show more
Why We Read by Various
$24.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for ...Show more
Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
$25.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowled ...Show more