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The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | 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 Honourable Schoolboy (Smiley's People #6) by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Spy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. George Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its hist ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there ...Show more
The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Spy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political while the Department dealt with military matters. But the Department has been moribund since the War; its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents ...Show more
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
$29.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an influence on writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. "Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written" ...Show more
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
$29.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
The Merchant of Prato : Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who fo ...Show more
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forev ...Show more
The Perfect Murder: The First Inspector Ghote Mystery by H. R. F. Keating
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing Bombay CID's most dogged, dutiful officer, and one of the greatest, most engaging creations in all detective fiction, H.R.F. Keating's The Perfect Murder- The First Inspector Ghote Mysteryincludes a preface by Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, in Penguin M ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more