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Art by Simon Schama
$10.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Babies: Vintage Minis by Anne Enright
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Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Babies- our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the l ...Show more
Death: Vintage Minis by Julian Barnes
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, whether death can be good for our careers and why we eventually turn into our parents. Barnes is the perfect ...Show more
Depression: Vintage Minis by William Styron
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Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to ...Show more
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger ...Show more
Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are ...Show more
Eating: Vintage Minis by Nigella Lawson
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs, Nigella brings the joy back into the kitchen. Selected fro ...Show more
Family: Vintage Minis by Mark Haddon
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books of Mark Haddon. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Fatherhood: Vintage Minis by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$10.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How to be a good father? Children?s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes- the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard?s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the ...Show more
Independence: Vintage Minis by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.'We collect some of the most heartening statements of independence from Bronte's heroines Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe as in the face of temptation, hardship and heartache they cling determi ...Show more
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turn ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more