Nicholson Baker

Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognised as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy—a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II. Human Smoke delivers a closely textured, deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths...

The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions—why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw—our narrator interrogates the inner-workings of corporate living as he traipses his way down escalators to the first floor and through the mundaneness of office life. Mixing humour with the existentialism...