How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese Coleman
$0.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
$37.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art. As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incomparable” by Junot Díaz, and “incendiary” by the ...Show more
Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
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Category: Art of the Essay
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR ART OF THE ESSAY.One of Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, Electric Literature and Pop Sugar's Best Books of 2018. Named one of the Best Books of October and Fall by Amazon, Buzzfeed, TIME, Vulture, The Millions and Vol. 1 Brookl ...Show more
In a Day's Work: The Hidden Story of Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
$54.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Longlisted for the PEN/Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice "In a Day's Work is a . . . much-needed addition to the literature on sexual harassment in the U.S."--The New York Review of Books An acclaimed journalist investigates sexual a ...Show more
Iron Ambition - My Life with Cus D'Amato by Mike Tyson; Larry Sloman
$20.01 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. " Iron Ambition] spells out D'Amato's techniques for building a champion from scratch." - Wa ...Show more
Katalin Street by Magda Szabo; Len Rix (Translator)
$38.00 NZD
Category: Translation
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II. In prewar Budapest three famili ...Show more
Lenin - The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen
$25.01 NZD
Category: Biography
Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort ...Show more
Lessons on Expulsion - Poems by Erika L. Sánchez
$11.43 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
An award-winning and hard-hitting new voice in contemporary American poetryThe first time I ever came the light was weak and carnivorous.I covered my eyes and the night cleared its dumb throat.I heard my mother wringing her hands the next morning.Of course I put my underwear on backwards, of course the ...Show more
Limits of the Known by David Roberts
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity's--and his own--relationship to exploration and extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their li ...Show more
Looking for Lorraine - The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her life was full of e ...Show more
Love by Hanne Ørstavik; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Translation
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norw ...Show more
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In "a magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures" (The Wall Street Journal), Lyndal Roper investigates the leader of the Reformation-the movement that split Christendom and upended Europe for centuries-who was, at his core, a deeply flawed man full of contradictions. A di ...Show more