The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
Boy Friends by Michael Pedersen
$33.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.' STEPHEN FRY'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.' JACKIE KAY'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refres ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
A Visible Man by Edward Enninful
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
When Edward Enninful became first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few at the heights of the elitist world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed that. From a childhood in Ghana amid ...Show more
Your Story Matters - Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story by Nikesh Shukla
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
'Like a best friend giving you essential advice. I can't wait to give this to every writer I know.' Candice Carty-Williams Why do stories matter? I tell stories to make sense of the world as I see it. The world I have lived and experienced, read about and heard about, and what I want it to be. I tell s ...Show more
Don't Look Away: A memoir of identity & acceptance by Danielle Laidley
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising. This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach, Danielle Laidley. Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain. This is how Danielle felt, for most of her life. For the best part of five decades, within a hyper-masculine sporting environment, Danielle Laidley h ...Show more
A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Ne ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | Series: Collins Modern Classics
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sk ...Show more
Farm - The making of a climate activist by Nicola Harvey
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
Is it possible to survive as a new farmer and change the future of farming at the same time? For years we've been told that the food system is destroying the planet. That there are too many cows and tractors, too much fertiliser, too much waste, and that farmers and food manufacturers are polluting our ...Show more
People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure and loose living by Sally Olds
$37.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SALT PATH AND THE WILD SILENCE Global bestselling author Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and t ...Show more