Jumping Ship and other essays by Glenn Colquhoun
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
"A book of essays and poems on the relationship between Pākehā and Māori, and on the practice of medicine...Includes, among other things, a state of the nation speech from Waitangi 2007, organised by the Treaty Resource Centre: He Puna Mātauranga te Tiriti; a keynote address for the English teachers ...Show more
K. by Roberto Calasso
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
In her fiction, Claire Messud has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicat ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Virginia Woolf claimed that Mansfield's writing was 'The only writing I have ever been jealous of.' Widely considered one of the best short-story writers of her period, Katherine Mansfield's stories are celebrated for their sensitive subtlety in the treatment of human behaviour. Satirical, psychological ...Show more
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I ...Show more
King Arthur by Daniel Mersey
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Myths and Legends
From his court at Camelot, King Arthur ruled over a unified Britain in a mythical age of peace and prosperity. His glory, however, would be short-lived. For even as he drew the sword from the stone, a doom settled over Arthur that would see his kingdom fall to betrayal and war. In this book, Daniel Mers ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut - Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$28.99 NZD
Category: Literature
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt b ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Kurt Vonnegut
$32.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
During his long career, Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his career - we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. Kurt Vonn ...Show more
Lasting Lines: 100 poems and poets that you should know by Jamie Grant
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literature
The English language is rich in poetry; yet how many people are aware that many of our stock phrases and familiar sayings have their origins as lines of poetry? Ink-stained poet Jamie Grant set out to uncover a selection of these enduring lines in the works of English-language poets all the way from Cha ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$29.99 NZD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: Literature
This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her. At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a proli ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
$9.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more