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Climbers - With an Introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' ...Show more
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
‘A jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a cat-and-mouse game, a do-it-yourself novel … one of the great works of art of [the 20th] century’ Mary McCarthy ‘Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstat ...Show more
The Hill Station by J. G. Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'From the wide veranda you stepped out on to an acre of lawn, as smooth as glass; from the lawn you stepped on to nothing but fresh air.'A summer of the 1870s, the Himalayan resort of Simla, in colonial India. To the cool of the hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, ...Show more
The Queen's Gambit (PB) by Walter Tevis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Series | Reading Level: very good
‘Superb’ - Time Out. ‘Mesmerizing’ - Newsweek. ‘Gripping’ - Financial Times. ‘Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years – for the pure pleasure and skill of it’ - Michael Ondaatje. ‘Don’t pick this up if you want a night’s sleep’ - The Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage at the ag ...Show more
The Siege Of Krishnapur: Winner of the Booker Prize by J.G. Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WINNER OF THE 1973 BOOKER PRIZE'We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?'Krishnapur, 1857: India is on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny. In this remote town on the vast North Indian plain, life for the British is still ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J. G. Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of ...Show more
Troubles by J.G. Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters,the lady herself proves elusive,and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts ...Show more
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