Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
$51.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays 'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached w ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
The World Turned Upside Down - Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage' Times Higher Educatio ...Show more
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur. Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, she rejected marriage - and she wore trou ...Show more
Under Pressure - Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine by Richard Humphreys
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This is the world of the submariner. This is life under pressure. What's it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over a hundred fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? This is the world of the submariner. Thi ...Show more
Midnight's Borders by Vijayan, Suchitra
$60.00 NZD
Category: History
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It i ...Show more
The See-Through House - My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
*Chosen as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* The See-Through House is a book about saying goodbye to a much-loved family home. It is also a very funny account of looking after an adored yet maddening parent and a piercing portrait of the grief that followed his death. Shelley Klein grew up in the Scottish ...Show more
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
$45.00 NZD
Category: War-Spy-Auschwitz | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
'Meticulous... Probably the most disturbing portrait of Hitler I have ever read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'There will never be a definitive life of Hitler. The subject is too vast, the man too contradictory and the sources unmanageable. But Volker Ullrich's biography comes as close as we can reaso ...Show more
Fragments Of An Infinite Memory by Mael Renouard
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
"One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea-it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself-of doing a Google search to find out what I had been up to and where I had been the previous evening, since my own recollections were confused." So begins Mae Nl Renouard's ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes w ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays, Letters, Diaries | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
Down in the Valley - A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more