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Brasserie Zedel: Traditions and Recipes from a Grand Brasserie by A. A. Gill
$37.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Cuisine
Think 'grand cafe' and the image that immediately springs to mind is a decadent, smoke-filled place populated by coffee-drinking thinkers, writers and artists in 1930s Europe. Along with the brasserie, the grand cafe combines an opulent setting exclusively for the everyman. Zedel is such a place. Housed ...Show more
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill by A.A. Gill
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page. This book, the second posthumous collection of his journalism, brings together pieces from near and far. He was feroci ...Show more
Here and There by A.A. Gill
$34.99 NZD
Category: Travel
From acclaimed writer AA Gill comes this collection of travel pieces selected from his monthly column in Australian Gourmet Traveller - 'AA Gill is away'. Witty, acerbic and often moving, these pieces are far from standard travel writing fare. Touching on tourism, airports, world cuisine and countries i ...Show more
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism by A. A. Gill
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A. A. Gill's writing: an embarrassment of riches. This selection of some of his recent pieces, spanning the last five years, sees him at his most perceptive, brilliant and funny. His subjects range from the controversial - fur - to the heartfelt - a fantastic crystallisation of what it means to be Europ ...Show more
Pour Me: A Life by A. A. Gill
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
'A. A. Gill, the man who makes a living getting beneath the skin of things, whether it's television, restaurants or places round the world - has skinned himself' Vanity Fair A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He ...Show more
The Best of A A Gill by A A Gill
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
The Golden Door - Letters to America by A. A. Gill
$29.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be 'not born'. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. A generation later, you could ask the same question about the World Trade Centre. Where were you w ...Show more
The Golden Door - Letters to America by A. A. Gill
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be 'not born'. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. A generation later, you could ask the same question about the World Trade Centre. Where were you w ...Show more
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