The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
$26.00 NZD
Category: Thrillers
'The Death of Mrs Westaway is Ruth Ware's best- a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting' AJ FINN, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW 'If you're an Agatha Christie fan then you'll love this eerie new offering from mega-author Ruth Ware... Dark, ...Show more
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler; Philip Boehm (Translator)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
THE NEW TRANSLATION BY PHILIP BOEHM Darkness at Noon is the chilling, powerful tale of a Soviet revolutionary who falls foul of the regime to which he has dedicated his life. Published in Great Britain in 1940, it alerted the West to the ugly reality of Stalin's regime. It was feted by George Orwell, w ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
Under The Net: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; Kiernan Ryan (Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. 'This is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd ...Show more
War Vintage Minis by Sebastian Faulks
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A soldier falls asleep on duty and is threatened with being court-martialled. An officer lies in mud, fighting for his life and the life of his men. A young man walks across Waterloo Bridge, explosives in his rucksack, heart pounding. In this powerfully moving book, Faulks shows us the true face of war. ...Show more
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This beautiful Penguin Classics clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, and with an afterword by Orlando Figes.At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly en ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt: (Vintage Voyages) by Graham Greene
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southw ...Show more
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
$24.00 NZD
Category: Ernest Hemingway
Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his motor boat in Key West, Florida. Although he normally takes out fishing parties, sometimes his boat can be put to other uses. If the money offered is worth his while, Harry will run guns, rum and men to and from Cuba. But he is ...Show more
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever. But time passes, bri ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: good
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
$26.00 NZD
Category: Ernest Hemingway | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...? This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summ ...Show more