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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
" These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." --Los Angeles Times Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds Zadie Sm ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
"Brilliant...[Smith's] new book is lively, intelligent and frequently hilarious, and proves that she's one of the brightest minds in English literature today...She considers Brexit and Key & Peele, J.G. Ballard and Jay-Z, Billie Holiday and Justin Bieber. Refreshingly, she does it all without the ki ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$12.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Michael Jackson: on the Wall - On the Wall by Nicholas Cullinan (Text by, Editor); Margo Jefferson (Text by); Michael Jackson (Artist); Zadie Smith (Text by)
$59.09 AUD
Category: Visual Arts
Icon as muse: Michael Jackson in art, from Warhol to KAWS Since Andy Warhol first used his image in 1982, Michael Jackson has become the most depicted cultural figure in contemporary art. But while his impact on music, music video, dance, choreography and fashion is widely acknowledged, Jackson's consi ...Show more
N W by Zadie Smith
$10.95 AUD
$22.99 (52% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet af ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - bo ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in New England mainly and London partly, "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Bea ...Show more
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what ...Show more