The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' ..... Gabriel García Márquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and unfor ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...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
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...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
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
An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by irrevocably altering our environment, our atmosphere and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'