In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jaccob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbses' house, a small dog is ...Show more
That Eye, The Sky by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Ort knows the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch; he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks. Things are terribly wrong. His father is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960 ...Show more
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreetis Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave th ...Show more
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
This dystopian classic is 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong?ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by ...Show more
The Return of the King (Special unjacketed hardback edition) by J R R Tolkien
$39.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: The\Lord of the Rings Ser.
THE THIRD PART OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S EPIC MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGSThe Dark Lord Sauron has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor.To defeat Sauron, the One Ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the w ...Show more
Papillon by Henri Charriere
$26.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Henri Charri re, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet ...Show more
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Alma Classics) by George Orwell
$20.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens Ser.
Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania one of the three totalitarian blocks dominating the world which is ruled by a secretive leader called Big Brother, who keeps the population in thrall through strict surveillance and brutal ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$33.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, and reason, set against a modernising Russia. This acclaimed new Englis ...Show more
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatri ...Show more
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
$18.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Pictures from Italy is edited with notes and an introduction by and notes by Kate Flint.In 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel ...Show more
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Deighton Len
$24.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain Summer, 1940- western Europe has been conquered, and Hitler turns his attention to the invasion of England. Fighter is Len Deighton's thrilling history of the ensuing Battle of Britain - the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe tha ...Show more