Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party i ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$23.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
In Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctor's suggestion that 'as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of the future.' This writing evolved into an in ...Show more
Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton Drawing on the author's deep understanding of military life and the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a myth-puncturing analysis of the advent of the Second World War.Blood ...Show more
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
$22.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.
City of Gold by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
The race is on to find a German agent, hiding somewhere in the maze of wartime Cairo January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt - perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city - a source so well-informed that the German commander knows i ...Show more
A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
One autumn in the late 1920s, Constanza boards a train in Italy en route to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter Flavia. Through an odd incident Constanza makes a casual decision that changes both their lives.
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
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-SmithToday, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but ...Show more
Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
A perfectly plotted, cosy detective story from Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's master of mysteryIn a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate- the flush of the couple's cheeks speaks ...Show more
Blueback by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
Abel Jackson's boyhood belongs to a vanishing world. On an idyllic stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish, he lives a simple, tough existence. It's just him and his mother in the house at Longboat Bay, but Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets when diving. A ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
$28.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Picador Collection
<b>Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, <i>No Country For Old Men</i> is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of <i>The Road</i>.</b> Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone ...Show more