The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - th ...Show more
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write by Alex Johnson & James Oses
$45.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work. The perennial question asked of all authors is How do you write? What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they ...Show more
Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the Apologetic Bandit In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After ...Show more
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
$24.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanaly ...Show more
The Bookseller's Tale (PB) by Martin Latham
$26.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with ...Show more
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$40.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the terror that no-one will care or that we will get in trouble? How do we identify and overcome everything that gets in our way so we can start making work?Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink sho ...Show more
The Novel Project: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel, Memoir or Biography by Graeme Simsion
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
The no-drama novel writing method behind Graeme Simsion's global bestsellersSave the drama for the story.'Writing is easy- all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.' Variously attributed to Thomas Wolfe, Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway, the quote p ...Show more
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by HAROLD BLOOM
$37.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold ...Show more
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
'Will Loxley has a deft touch, wit, and a panoramic eye which would have pleased Cyril Connolly himself.' John Sutherland, author of Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me'A marvelous tour d'Horizon, written with energy and an eye for the spot-on detail, and creating a rich picture of culture, art, work, fr ...Show more
The Anna Karenina Fix - Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop
$40.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn't love you back (Turgenev's A Month in the Country) ...Show more
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Why do some writers destroy themselves by drinking alcohol? Before our health-conscious age it would be true to say that many writers drank what we now regard as excessive amounts. Graham Greene, for instance, drank on a daily basis quantities of spirits and wine and beer most doctors would consider as ...Show more
On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography of George Orwell’s Masterpiece by D.J. Taylor
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading | Series: Books about Bks.
From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have ...Show more