Jafsie and John Henry - Essays by David Mamet
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
With the signature literary swagger that has made him the most original voice of American stage and screen, David Mamet's essays touch on his most intimate interests and obsessions. From his lifelong mania for poker and its labyrinthine psychology to sharp sallies on movie-making gibberish and the meani ...Show more
The Departure Lounge - Travel and Literature in the Post-Modern World by John Needham
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Meditations on travel and literature by a New Zealander, but originally published in an English journal.
Hawaii One Summer by Maxine Hong Kingston
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
"I did not wait for twenty years to write the pieces in this book, which is like a diary. There is sometimes only a week or two between an event and my writing about it. I wrote about my son's surfing upon coming home from it. I wrote about the high school reunion before going to it. The result is that ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
$15.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
Biography As High Adventure - Life-Writers Speak on Their Art by Stephen B Oates (Editor)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
In this volume ten distinguished biographers discuss the principles and practices of their craft.
On Histories & Stories - Selected Essays by A S Byatt
$14.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Radical Chic / Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers / The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Three classic essays by Tom Wolfe.
A Writer's People: Ways of Seeing and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The Nobel Prize winner writes candidly about cultural currents, ideas, experiences and the part they play in a life of writing. Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul
The Painted Kipper by Harman Grisewood
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: The New Thinker's Library | Reading Level: very good
A Study of the Spurious in the Contemporary Scene
The Religio Medici and Other Writings by Sir Thomas Browne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Everyman's Library No. 92 | Reading Level: good
Winter Pollen - Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This volume contains writings by English poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998) that cover a period of over thirty years and include essays, book reviews, commissioned articles, prefaces, autobiographical reflections, and items never before published. He writes about Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Isaac Bashevis S ...Show more
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore by Gregory O'Brien
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
At once a travel book, an autobiographical novel and free-floating meditation on Europe and the Antipodes, News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore begins with its narrator suspended in the salty, tideless waters of the Mediterranean. Adrift on an ocean of art history, literature and music, of memories and a d ...Show more