Everyday Drinking - The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drinks | Reading Level: very good
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass?In one handsome packa ...Show more
Shoe Money by Maggie Alderson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
Maggie Alderson, Australia's wittiest fashion and lifestyle columnist whose work is widely enjoyed in the "Good Weekend" magazine, will amuse and entertain you with her finely tuned observations about everything from global style icons to when to wear that perfect dress.
Graham Greene - Collected Essays by Graham Greene
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating; his subjects brought vividly t ...Show more
The Golden Door - Letters to America by A. A. Gill
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be 'not born'. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. A generation later, you could ask the same question about the World Trade Centre. Where were you w ...Show more
Hooking Up - Essays and Fiction by Tom Wolfe
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A perfect introduction to Tom Wolfe's brilliant and masterful journalism.In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience a ...Show more
Speeches and Letters on American Affairs by Edmund Burke
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot, Volumes One and Two - The Literary Essays by Walter Bagehot; Norman St John-Stevas (ed.); William Haley (introduction)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: first edition
The Return of Eva Perón with The Killings in Trinidad by V. S Naipaul
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Michael X in Trinidad, Peronism in Argentina, the cult of Kingship in Mobutu's Zaire - the author brings his novelist's questioning to bear upon the half-made societies, those still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism and prey to corruption.
In Rough Country - Essays and Reviews by Joyce Carol Oates
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Acclaimed for her novels and short stories, Joyce Carol Oates is also an unparalleled literary critic whose insights and commentary have graced the pages of such publications as the "New York Review of Books", the "Times Literary Supplement", and the "New York Times Book Review". This new collection bri ...Show more
Quite - Love, life & eyeliner by Claudia Winkleman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'A delight' Stylist 'Funny, real and caring' YOU Magazine 'Funny, irreverent and moving... everything you would expect from the thick-fringed presenter who's won a place in the nation's hearts' The Sun 'Full of hilarious insights' Vanity Fair A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Claudia Winkleman's warmth, hu ...Show more