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Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
$28.00 NZD
Category: Essays
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
The Art of the City : Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel; Will Stone (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Pushkin Collection
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the cit ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
$30.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – th ...Show more
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: 3 Biography
A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing. Long captivated by the solid yet impermanent nature of ice, by its stark, rugged beauty, accl ...Show more
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