150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before You Die by ELIZABETH STAMP
$90.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- The most interesting bookstores in the world, collected in one beautifully bound volume- After 150 Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Houses, Gardens, Golf Courses and Vineyards this is the eighth book in the internationally successful 150 series- Selected and written by American author Elizabeth Stamp, journ ...Show more
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature by Kirk Assaf, Andrea
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language.Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best known for her novels about love, life, friendship and faith, all ...Show more
Curious English Words and Phrases - The Truth Behind the Expressions We Use by Max Cryer
$19.99 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
Have you ever wondered where terms like 'end of your tether', 'gets my goat' or 'letting ones hair down' come from? Or why we call some people 'geezers', 'sugar daddies' or 'lounge lizards'? Or where the words 'eavesdropping', 'nickname' and 'D-Day' come from? They are just a few of the many words and p ...Show more
Twenty-First Century Tolkien - What Middle-Earth Means to Us Today by Nick Groom
$37.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.
Bedside Companion for Food Lovers: An Anthology of Mouthwatering Literary Morsels for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
$45.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
A mouthwatering anthology of food in literature, encompassing fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, and even a smattering of recipes, with one piquant extract for every night of the year. This absorbing book is a literary feast for every food lover - and who isn't? You'll discover a wealth of foodi ...Show more
Cult Writers by Ian Haydn Smith; Kristelle Rodeia (Illustrator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing | Series: Cult Figures Ser.
In Cult Writers Ian Haydn Smith introduces 50 novelists deserving of a cult status. The literary genres and subjects explored within these writers’ pages are rich and diverse – acting as mirrors of their genius minds: from Irvine Welsh’s gritty Edinburgh streets, to Ken Kesey’s drug-fuelled madness; fro ...Show more
Guarded by Dragons - Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski
$37.99 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing | Reading Level: very good
Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old.In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers i ...Show more
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
'Will Loxley has a deft touch, wit, and a panoramic eye which would have pleased Cyril Connolly himself.' John Sutherland, author of Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me'A marvelous tour d'Horizon, written with energy and an eye for the spot-on detail, and creating a rich picture of culture, art, work, fr ...Show more
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings
$40.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of political consequence. Maurice Barres, who first wiel ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
The Torchlight List - Around the World in 200 Books by Jim Flynn
$33.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing | Reading Level: very good
This witty, clever, mind-expanding and original book is destined to become a classic. A professor for over 40 years, Jim Flynn found fewer and fewer of his students were in love with reading. However, they were willing to try if he gave them lists. This inspired him to create the definitive list: books ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books and Writing
"A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."--James Shapiro When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, the First F ...Show more