A Helping Hand by Celia Dale
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Middle-aged Josh and Maisie Evans lead an unremarkable, unassuming life.When Auntie Flo, who has lived with them for years, dies and leaves them her Estate, they head to Italy on holiday, to take in the sea air and let the sun soak into their bones. It's there they meet Mrs Fingal. A wealthy widow, sh ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Forever War Ser.
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from ...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 ...Show more
The Invisible Man by H G Wells, H. G. Wells
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
H. G. Wells skilfully combines tension, wit and terror in The Invisible Man, a masterpiece of science fiction. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books ma ...Show more
The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Penguin Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
$12.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
An illustrated adaptation of Charles Dickens's Victorian classic - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages Oliver Twist is poor. Always has been, always will be. Being born in a workhouse means that you'll probably always be treated like rubbish. Oliver does not want a life of hard work and m ...Show more
The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
Persuasion (Chartwell Classic) by Jane Austen
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
Experience the passion, pain, and excitement of a romance reignited in Jane Austen's final novel.
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Cespedes (translated by Anne Goldstein)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Out running errands, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. Hiding it from her husband and children, she begins to record and scrutinise her life, writing of the daily domestic routine, her children's struggles in love and minor rifts in her marriage. Gradually, ...Show more