Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben Crystal, David Crystal
$50.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies
Shakespeare had an ear and hand that was able to capture our everyday thoughts and emotions, pin them to a page, and express them so well that still today they can make us feel stunned to be seen.'Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.''Make not your thoughts your prisons.''Wisely and slow. ...Show more
Granta 161: Sister, Brother by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies
This issue of Granta tells the story of siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.
Howdunit: a Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies
Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.Ninety crime writers from the world's oldest and most famous crime writing network give tips and insights into su ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: near fine
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Scorchers - A Climate Fiction Anthology by Paul Mountfort; Rosslyn Prosser
$29.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
Scorchers is the first ever pan-Australasian anthology of climate fiction writings. Including pieces both by some of Australia and New Zealand’s most celebrated authors, its sixteen contributors have responded to a deceptively simple provocation: How can writers—and by implication literature—respond wit ...Show more
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny
$37.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise. State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership th ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies
" I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it s an expert gardener at wor ...Show more