The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political views.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics wi ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
18.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Orwell's first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, is at once a very personal account, an exposé of poverty-stricken lives between the wars, and a call for social and economic reform.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gol ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"A crucially important book." - The Guardian "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last d ...Show more
Orwell and England: Selected Essays by George Orwell
18.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England brings together some ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
A sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars. Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, i ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more
The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...Show more
A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: Popular Penguins by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, the ingenious possibilities of a nail, a piece of string or a single match in a time where survival is all. Enter a ...Show more
Food for Thought: Selected Writings by Various
23.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about food from your favorite classic authors. From ancient times to today's celebrity chefs, people have always been inspired to write about food. In this delectable collection, Food for Thought, food historian Annie Gray has chosen an array of materi ...Show more
An Area of Darkness by V S Naipaul
20.00 NZD
25.00 (20% off)
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make ...Show more