Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant ...Show more
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
About Love by Anton Chekhov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and a beautiful, quiet uncertainty. Collected here are five of his very best tales- 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and t ...Show more
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, f ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothe ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithRegarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of th ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
The Walking Fish by Kopel Burk; Rachelle Burk
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Winner of: National Science Teachers Association/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award A humorous, exciting tale of an ordinary girl who makes an extraordinary scientific discovery--a blind fish that walks When seventh-grader Alexis catches an unusual fish that looks like ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee: The New 44 Scotland Street Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
$46.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land. The city of pies and Irn Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene - his place of escape. But how will he respond to the news of the proposed merging of Edinburgh and Glasgow? A new member of Bertie's class at school is causing ripples in his social circle. She ...Show more