The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
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
David Copperfield (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. The early scenes are particularly masterful, depicting the world as seen from the persp ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
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
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Lord of the Rings [TV-Tie-In Single Volume Edition] by J R R Tolkien
$55.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Lord of the Rings Ser.
Begin your journey into Middle-earth. A New Legend Begins on Prime Video, in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Middle-earth, a world of magic and adventure. A land full of tales spanning thousands of years. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat: Popular Penguins by Jerome K. Jerome
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Popular Penguins by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classics
'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
1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Haruki Murakami
$34.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: 1q84 Ser.
"The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems n ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate: Popular Penguins by Nancy Mitford
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics | 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
Chatterton Square (British Library Women Writers) by E H Young
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classics
“‘You don’t mean you’re going to divorce him?’ Miss Spanner said with horror.” A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers. Framed by the advance of the Second World War, the subtle mechanics ...Show more