Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Literature
This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and scholar. The ideas expressed remain remarkably releva ...Show more
A Garden From A Hundred Packets Of Seed by James Fenton
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Category: Literature
In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. 'It seemed a simple and interesting idea: what plants would you choose if starting a garden from scratch?' Includes chapters on flowers for colour, size, or exotic interest; herbs and ...Show more
Mentored By A Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by A.J. Lees
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Category: Literature
Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients. Lees follows Burroughs into the rainforest and under the influence of yage (ayahuasca) gains insights th ...Show more
Smoke by John Berger
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Category: Literature
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Sel�uk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, throu ...Show more
Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
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Category: Poetry
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myselfthat’s why I let them see me that’s why I let them see meon certain nights in certain lights when the planetslined up like a string of pearls in the sky and the moonwas the correct hue Rangikura is the fiery second collection by Tayi Tibble. These poems l ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
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Category: Poetry | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts by Harry Ricketts
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Category: Poetry
Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. From his 1989 collection Coming Here – in which he wrote the first of his ‘Secret Life’ poems – to his 2018 collection Winter Eyes, which reviewer Tim Uppert ...Show more
Little Ache, The by Ian Wedde
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Little Ache – a German notebook was written in 2013–14, while Ian Wedde was researching his acclaimed novel The Reed Warbler. In Berlin and the north of Germany around Kiel, nineteenth-century ancestors whisper to him amid the clamour of history and the pleasures of daily life.
How to Design a Garden by John Brookes
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Category: General
Beginning in the 1960s, John Brookes MBE (1933-2018) revolutionized garden design, with a new design philosophy and methodology that was rooted in the notion that gardens are about the people who live in them. Recognizing the demands of the contemporary lifestyle, he broke with previous labour-intensive ...Show more
He Iti te Kupu: Maori Metaphors and Similes by Hona Black
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Category: General
He Iti te Kupu contains nearly 500 sayings that draw a comparison between something (often the natural world) and people, events or contexts. Written in Māori and English, this accessible guide explains the use, meaning and context of a host of the principal figures of speech in te reo. Divided into the ...Show more
How to Live with Mammals by Ash Davida Jane
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Category: Poetry
we love an underdog especially when it’s a whale we see ourselves in themliterally in them lounging in their cathedral of a mouthjust looking for love All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others and so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is n ...Show more
A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand by Paula Morris & Alison Wong
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Category: Literature
A landmark anthology of creative work – poetry, fiction and essays – by emerging Asian New Zealand writers. This landmark collection of poetry, fiction and essays by emerging writers is the first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing. A Clear Dawn presents an extraordinary new wave of cre ...Show more