Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly by Joshua Rivkin
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The first book to explore the life and work of Cy Twombly, one of the most important and influential artists of the Twentieth Century Cy Twombly was a man obsessed with myth and history--including his own. Shuttling between stunning homes in Italy and the United States where he perfected his room-size ...Show more
Cherry by Nico Walker
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship ali ...Show more
Chester B. Himes - A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
$57.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work A Washington Post Notable Book The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Chester B. Himes has been called "one of the towering figures of the black ...Show more
Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
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Category: Book Award | Series: BreakBeat Poets Ser.
"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it." --Eve Ewing, author of Electric ArchesIn this stunning debut, poet Jos Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody ...Show more
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi; Tina Kover (Translator)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Translation
WINNER: Le Prix du Roman News, Style Prize, Lire Best Debut Novel 2016, la Porte Dor e Prize Kimi Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new gene ...Show more
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: ...Show more
Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry
$55.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
"Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered." --The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of 2017 (So Far) ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover (Contribution by)
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Category: Book Award
'A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage a a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' Sunday TimesTara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent he ...Show more
Eye Level by Jenny Xie
$0.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Juan Felipe Herrera For years now, I've been using the wrong palette. Each year with its itchy blue, as the bruise of solitude reaches its expiration date. Planes and buses, ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Art of the Essay
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate ...Show more
Flâneuse - Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
The fl�neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl�neuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the fl�neuse is a "determined, resourcefu ...Show more