Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Aesop
59.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
"I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead..." writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer'sThe Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the result of a too ...Show more
The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
27.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Faber Editions Ser.
For fans of The Passenger, this thrilling tale of an ex-Nazi surgeon hiding in plain sight in 1960s London by the celebrated filmmaker is a lost noir gem, introduced by Anthony Quinn.'A wonderfully compelling noir thriller and audacious and challenging act of imagination.' William Boyd'This extraordinar ...Show more
Shot with Crimson by Nicola Upson
36.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A murderer stalks the set of Hitchcock's film of Rebecca, bent on revenge, in this smart, cosy mystery. September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the sh ...Show more
Peter Pan (Chartwell Classics) by J.M. Barrie
27.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
What is Pride and Prejudice about : Pride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry. ...Show more
The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics
An intricate, puzzle-like murder mystery set in Imperial China, featuring the indefatigable Judge Dee Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man... Most people would refuse the job of Magistrate at the lonely port town of Peng-lai - especially as the last occupant of the post has been fou ...Show more
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
25.99 NZD
Category: Classics
James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series 'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence ...Show more
Haven by Emma Donoghue
34.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Three men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream tell ...Show more
Silverview by John le Carré
35.00 NZD
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good
In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into hi ...Show more