Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
Lampedusa by Steven Price
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
In 1943, an Allied bomb destroyed the Lampedusa palace in Palermo; in 1955, Giuseppe Tomasi is diagnosed with advanced emphysema. Shortly after, profoundly aware of his mortality, he begins work on a novel, imagining the life of his great-grandfather Don Giulio, astronomer prince and head of the family ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More: Deliciously dark adult tales soon to be a major Netflix film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ben Kingsley Dev Patel and more! by Roald Dahl
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy; the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability; and, meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers sav ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most gorgeous, funny and heartbreaking novels ever written.'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up.Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbli ...Show more
Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by Salman Rushdie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of a modern classic and winner of 'The Best of the Booker' - the best novel from Booker Prize history.Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is ...Show more
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of Calvino's incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous masterwork.You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replac ...Show more
Trainspotting (Vintage Classics) by Irvine Welsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-num ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author. This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slaver ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, ...Show more
Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is nothing less than a rite of passage.Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yos ...Show more
The Woman in Black - Vintage Classics by Susan Hill
$40.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the scariest and most ingenious novels ever written.Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is n ...Show more