The High Window: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The High Window by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. That's unlucky f ...Show more
The Lady in the Lake: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Lady in the Lakeis a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Troub ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oliver (AFT) Charles; Francis Darwin
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To young James Herriot, fresh out of veterinary college, Yorkshire appears to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But even life in the sleepy village of Darrowby has its challenges: from his new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to herds of semi-feral catt ...Show more
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by James Herriot
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet sees recently qualified vet James Herriot firmly ensconced in the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and acclimatized to life with his unpredictable colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon. But veterinary practice in the 1930s was never going to be easy, and the ...Show more
Boy: Popular Penguins by Roald Dahl
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Korean edition of Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, translated by Jeong Hwoi Seong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
April Fool's Day: Popular Penguins by Bryce Courtenay
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that's how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering ...Show more
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edgar Allen Poe
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming ...Show more
Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling?s witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant?s Child, the Cat that Walked by H ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a classic story of friendship between man and beast.Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi t ...Show more
Selected Verse: Kipling (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lizzy (INT) Rudyard; Welby Kipling
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With subjects as broad as militarism, the British Empire, childhood and death, the Selected Verse of Rudyard Kipling is a treasure trove of the Nobel Prize winner's most striking and moving poetry, dramatic monologues and ballads. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition includes an introduction by Li ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soo ...Show more