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Another Great Day at Sea by Geoff Dyer
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'c ...Show more
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Where Eagles Dareis both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe's modern history in favour of huge explosions and camp SS off ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Contest Of The Century: The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer [No relation]
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business
Description: By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it seeks to translate its considerable economic heft into a larger role on the world stage, challenging American supremacy. Yet he als ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ah Venice! The canals, palazzos, gondoliers, vaporetti...the bellinis. Jeff Atman, hack writer, is in town for the Biennale. Ostensibly to fulfil a freelance commission, actually to attend as many parties and soak up as much free booze as logistically possible. Then he meets Laura. Suddenly, amid the co ...Show more
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spell-binding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city, another assignme ...Show more
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
$56.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
A full-colour illuminated history of how photographs frame and change the world, from the award-winning author of The Ongoing Moment.
The Contest of the Century - The New Era of Competition with China by Geoff Dyer
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
By sea and on the airwaves, by dollar and yuan, a contest has begun that will shape the next century. China's rise has now entered a critical new phase, as it begins to translate its considerable economic heft into a bigger role on the world stage, challenging America's recent supremacy. With its new na ...Show more
The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
$30.00 NZD
Category: photography | Reading Level: very good
In his last book, YOGA FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DO IT, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he did not own a camera. With characteristic perversity - and trademark originality - THE ONGOING MOMENT is Dyer's unique and idiosyncratic ...Show more
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