Wild Words: How Language Engages With Nature by Kate Hodges
$22.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
The book showcases 75 beautiful words evocative of the wild, from all around the world, that describe natural happenings in nature. It includes words that describe weather, or a feeling you have when in nature as well as sensory words that explain the smell or sound of a place. The words used to expre ...Show more
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
$19.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
"Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?" Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of ...Show more
Literary Cats by JUDITH ROBINSON, SCOTT PACK
$39.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
‘Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.’ - Viv GroskopCats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and poetry, from ancient myths and fables to much-loved children’s books, and from classic tales to contemporary no ...Show more
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine by Will Loxley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
'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
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$65.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new miss ...Show more
Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women by The Big Issue, Jane Graham
$39.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
From The Big Issue's popular section, this collection features 50 remarkable women writing letters to their younger selves. If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Letter to My Younger Self is back with another incredible selection of letters from well-known figures. In this ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
$36.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books- the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM - NICK HO ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard (Selected by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Writing, Language | Series: Curated by Jennie Orchard
With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Sai ...Show more
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story by Charlie Mackesy
$50.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
Ahead of the long-awaited film on BBC One this C hristmas Day, a breathtaking new imagining of the original record-breaking story. Charlie Mackesy's beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas. This beautiful ...Show more
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: Writing, Language
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with reade ...Show more