100 Happy Poems (to Raise Your Spirits Every Day) by Jane McMorland Hunter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
We can all benefit from a little nugget of happiness to soothe our weary souls in moments of stress, sadness and hardship. 100 Happy Poems provides just that: 100 specially selected and sublimely happy poems to turn to in times of need, from cosy fireside idylls to exhilarating outdoor adventures, encou ...Show more
The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
The unmissable sequel to the bestselling, award-winning, multi-adaptation hit The Lost Words Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but new in form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure, a new collection of 'spells' - acrostic poetry and artwork - by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
Winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infeste ...Show more
I Meant It Once by Kate Doyle
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
'I Meant it Once signals the arrival of a major talent and voice' Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize Finalist Real Life'Perceptive, funny, forthright, and often alarmingly relatable, I Meant It Once is a tremendously good debut' Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We E ...Show more
My American Chair by Elizabeth Smither
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
White lies, hip replacements and ballet with a sawhorse. Parisian drycleaners and the brush of the grass in Central Park. In My American Chair, Elizabeth Smither leads us through serendipitous encounters, the uncanny in the ordinary, the intricacies of friendship and ruminations on mortality. Assured, i ...Show more
River Poems by Various contributors
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
An anthology that explores the power and beauty of rivers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations--the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India's Ganges, Egypt's Nile, the Yellow River of China--and ...Show more
Such A Sweet Singing: Poetry To Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn (edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the people who read them. Here is poetry for those no longer being spoken to but speaking, no longer being looked at but looking, from the contemporary voices of Fiona Benson and Jane Yeh to the evocative imagery of Christina Rossetti, Anna ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Maktub by Paulo Coelho
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho's daily column ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered cha ...Show more
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more