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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First
29.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.' 117 Days is Ruth First's personal account of her detention under the iniquitous '90-day' law of 1963. There was no warrant, no charge and no trial - only suspicion. This sparsely written and unique record tel ...Show more
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell
13.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania. Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party ...Show more
84 Charing Cross Road by Hélène Hanff; Juliet Stevenson (Introduction by)
28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
84, Charing Cross Road with introduction by Anne Bancroft. 'A charmer. Will beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with [humankind].'
A Christmas Carol: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic by Charles Dickens
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Ser.
The classic seasonal tale of self-discovery, with 80 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. This classic seasonal tale of self-discovery has become one of Charles Dickens's most famous and best-loved works. On Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghost of his former business p ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
21.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Fairly Honourable Defeat: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL 'I ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Tess Newall; Alex Goodwin
20.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The ultimate and timeless Christmas story, with cuddly guinea pigs in the starring roles Miserable to the core and wholly unwilling to extend a paw to help those in desperate need, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge says "bah, Humbug " to the festive season. But one night he is visited by three Christmas Sp ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Nativity by BLOOMSBURY
19.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
You know the story ...Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there's no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (yo ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
23.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series.''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse' But sit down by the fire with some chocolates to hand, And you'll be welcomed into a magical land. There is snow and some moon ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist by Alex Goodwin
19.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens's most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs. In the misery of a workhouse, a poor, fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed on nothing but thin air and even thinner gruel. By squeaking a fateful question - ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
17.00 NZD
23.00 (26% off)
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more