The Folio Book of Short Novels by Various Authors
$28.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. Contains 5 short stories: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, The Virgin and The Gipsy by D H Lawrence and Gigi by Colette. Illustrations by Sara Fanelli.
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism
Secondhand. First edition. A historical novel about an obscure young Englishman who watches, without understanding, the last years of the Weimar Republic. Politics and sex create the atmosphere. Superbly Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
The Shorter Pepys by Robert Latham (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. This thousand-page book contains one third of the text of Samuel Pepys’s diary, along with maps, a chronology, a glossary of archaic words, and an unusually helpful index. The diary, written in commercial short-hand, spans the 1660s, a decade in which power passed from the Roundheads to Cha ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$69.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union - now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication ' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...Show more
Lost Souls by Jenny Haworth
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Secondhand. The Anglo-Boer War is, for New Zealanders, the forgotten war. Yet over 10,000 New Zealand soldiers recruited in 10 contingents left New Zealand for South Africa between 1899-1902. Most arrived too late to fight in the major battles. Instead they were used in the 'dirty war', rounding up Boe ...Show more
The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Antiquarian
Science Fiction: the Illustrated Encyclopedia by John Clute
$28.50 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Best Loved Oscar Wilde by John Wyse Jackson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Best-Loved Irish Writers Ser.
Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and political essays. A complex man with many sides, he was both a revolutionary thinker and a flamboyant dandy and ...Show more
Odin's Island by Janne Teller
$8.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Secondhand. Sigbrit Holland is driving along a treacherous winter road. Out of nowhere, something looms into view and Sigbrit has to slam on her brakes to avoid it. Investigating, she is unnerved to find an unusually short man - barely one metre tall - frozen to the spot. Unable to leave him there, Sig ...Show more
Three Short Novels from Papua New Guinea by Mike Greicus(ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Literature & Criticism | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. It contains "The Fires of Dawn", "The Flight of a Villager" and "Tali", novels of three new writers: Benjamin Umba, August Kituai, and Jim Baital, who are struggling to cope with the cultural confusion of an emerging nation.
Katūīvei - Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Katuivei) by David Eggleton (Editor); Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor); Mere Taito (Editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by 89 Aotearoa-based Pacific poets explores that navigation. This significant collection ranges from long-established voices ...Show more
A Dissolving Ghost: Essays And More by Margaret Mahy
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Margaret Mahy is known throughout New Zealand as a brilliant and prolific writer - and for her brightly coloured wig. One of our most internationally successful writers, she has received a string of awards and honours including the Order of New Zealand and the AW Reed Award for contribution ...Show more