The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: A\Ripley Novel Ser.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' - Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth.' Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead ...Show more
Without Prejudice: Black Britain: Writing Back by Nicola Williams
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background- in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her. After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrot ...Show more
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made ...Show more
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time Vol 1 by Marcel Proust
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.This is the first volume of In Search ...Show more
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth century. 'Zweig's fictional masterpiece' - The Guardian 'An intoxicating, morally shaking read... A real reminder of what fiction can do best' - Ali Smith 'It's just a masterpiece. When I read it I thought, how is it that I don't ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yos ...Show more
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings, Part 1 by J R R Tolkien
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Lord of the Rings | Reading Level: good
The first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, now in B format paperback with a black cover based on Tolkien's own design. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power -- the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret ...Show more
Trainspotting (Vintage Classics) by Irvine Welsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-num ...Show more
A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The stunning autobiography of Barbara Pym, celebrated author of Quartet in Autumn, Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women."I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym." RICHARD OSMAN"Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure." JILLY COOPER"Could ...Show more
Adolphe (riverrun Editions) by Benjamin Constant
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: riverrun editions
'One of the undisputed masterpieces of early nineteenth-century French prose fiction.'From Richard Sieburth's preface to AdolphePublished simultaneously in London and Paris in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a tragic love affair between its narrator and his lover Ellenore, two characters locked into a fat ...Show more