A Fortunate Life (HB) - Fremantle Press Treasures by A. B. Facey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Fremantle Press Treasures Edition
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons #7 Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Karin Smirnoff
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER - Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series - Also known as the Millennium series "Lisbeth Salander is back--and maybe better than ever. Karin Smirnoff's take is both re ...Show more
There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. ...Show more
Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights - Volume 1 by Ursula Lyons (Translator) Malcolm C. Lyons
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Arabian Nights Ser.
The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings the ...Show more
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners’ hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only f ...Show more
Delta of Venus: Popular Penguins by Anais Nin
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer se ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Cave's debut novel takes on the Southern Gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute i ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more