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Great Writers on the Great War Kipling's War by Kipling Rudyard
$22.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Great Writers on the Great War
This book takes the reader, alongside Kipling, to the training camps of Kitchener's army in the south of England, to the lines of the French army and the villages just behind them, to sea with submarines, minesweepers and the big ships of Jutland, to the Alpine front between Italy and Austria-Hungary an ...Show more
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Writers on Writers
In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences-the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Toibin creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how h ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
$23.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time whe ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
$36.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Writers on Writers | Reading Level: very good
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
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