The Artful Dickens - The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Discover the tricks of a literary master in this essential guide to the fictional world of Charles Dickens. From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find the perfect names for his characters? What was Dickens's favourite way of killing his characters? When is a Dickens character ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$40.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink
$38.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love.'Reading has saved my life, again and again, and has held my hand through every difficult time' For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in ...Show more
Cold Warriors - Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White
$30.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. ...Show more
The Mystery of Charles Dickens by A. N. Wilson
$45.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died. Although he specified an unpretentious funeral, it was ine ...Show more
Faber and Faber - The Untold Story of a Great Publishing House by Toby Faber
$25.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading | Reading Level: near fine
How does a book make its way into the world? Why do some get rejected while others become classics? This intimate history of Faber & Faber weaves together the most entertaining, moving and surprising letters, diaries and memos from the archive to reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest ...Show more
Women, Oxford and Novels of Crime by Alison Hoddinott
$33.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Alison Hoddinott writes about the history of crime fiction set in Oxford from the early decades of the 20th century to the present. Her emphasis is on novels written by women and the ways in which their fiction deals with both the mystery and its solution and with the situation of women within the unive ...Show more
A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
$34.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating ...Show more
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
$35.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
Indispensable Reading - 1001 Books from the Arabian Nights to Zola by Wm Roger Louis
$55.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
The world of books can seem like a trackless forest stretching to the horizon in all directions, full of wrong turns, dead ends, and pitfalls. But it is in fact full of treasure, and Indispensable Reading is a map to books that can provide a lifetime of reading that is thoughtful, provocative, pleasurab ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
$26.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more