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The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at ...Show more
The IPCRESS File (#1) by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinist ...Show more
The Island by Ana María Matute; Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds' Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of ...Show more
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequ ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday Times The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for ...Show more
The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye. The nameless detective has but two clues: a photo and a matchbook. With these, he embarks upon an ever-more-puzzling pursuit that leads him into the depths of Tokyo's ...Show more
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate; Julian Fellowes (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowsh ...Show more