The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Noble Prize for Literature. Here, is a perfectly crafted story is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
About Love by Anton Chekhov
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Widely considered to be one of greatest ever writers of the form, Anton Chekhov's short stories offer unforgettable character, crystalline expression, and a beautiful, quiet uncertainty. Collected here are five of his very best tales- 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'The House with the Mezzanine', and t ...Show more
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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, f ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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.Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothe ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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-SmithRegarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky's short stories are also some of th ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more
The Walking Fish by Kopel Burk; Rachelle Burk
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Winner of: National Science Teachers Association/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award A humorous, exciting tale of an ordinary girl who makes an extraordinary scientific discovery--a blind fish that walks When seventh-grader Alexis catches an unusual fish that looks like ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...Show more
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee: The New 44 Scotland Street Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
$46.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land. The city of pies and Irn Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene - his place of escape. But how will he respond to the news of the proposed merging of Edinburgh and Glasgow? A new member of Bertie's class at school is causing ripples in his social circle. She ...Show more
The Enigma of Garlic: A 44 Scotland Street Novel by Alexander McCall Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
It's the most anticipated event of the decade: Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own success. The lure of those famous bacon rolls is preventing her from leaving hungry customers without ...Show more