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Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the End-Game by Robert McCrum
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the sh ...Show more
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame by Robert McCrum
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' - Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and nea ...Show more
Globish : How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum
$32.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not necessarily be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is, nevertheless, a form of universally recognised English - it is Globish. In his wonderfully witty and informative new book, Robert McCrum explores the ...Show more
My Year off : Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
$14.99 NZD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP | Series: Picador Classic
"My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?" Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaire ...Show more
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Why do we return to Shakespeare time and again?When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became h ...Show more
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