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In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness ...I got a joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' I said to the Poet. In August 2014, Jenny Diski was dia ...Show more
On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Diski, fails to keep still and, like the philosopher Montaigne, keeps a record of her rambling ...Show more
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Skating to Antarctica is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul
Jenny Diski - The Sixties by Jenny Diski
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In "The Sixties", Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dism ...Show more
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