The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
For fans of true crime and of classic crime fiction, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey is a gripping thriller featuring detective Alan Grant and a masterful exposé of the powerful connections between media, the establishment and what people choose to believe. Based on a true story.Complete and unabr ...Show more
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, Francoise Sagan
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithPublished when she was only eighteen, Fran oise Sagan's astonishing novella, Bonjour Tristesse, became an insta ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
The Captive Wife (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Kidman
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened s ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France. In December 1995, Jean-Domini ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for fleeting rom ...Show more