Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Madame Bovary is the debut Novel of French writer: Gustave Flaubert. published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.
1984 by George Orwell
$15.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
Victim (Faber Stories) by P. D. JAMES
$9.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
'On the whole, it was easier than I had expected. Only once did I feel myself at risk. That was when the Inspector suddenly intervened. He said in a harsh voice: "He married your wife, didn't he? Took her away from you some people might say. Nice piece of goods, too, by the look of her. Didn't you feel ...Show more
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
$9.99 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, ...Show more
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
$36.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date William Shakespeare wrote some of the greatest poetry in all world literature, in compact sonnets bursting with beautiful imagery and t ...Show more
AUP New Poets 5 by Decarlo Carolyn Van Waardenberg Sophie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: AUP New Poets Ser.
In a New Zealand poetry scene overflowing with energy, the return of AUP New Poets introduces three extraordinary new voices. Launched in 1999, AUP New Poets first introduced readers to Anna Jackson, Sonja Yelich, Janis Freegard, Chris Tse and many more significant New Zealand voices. Relaunching this y ...Show more
When All is Said: The Number One Irish Bestseller by Anne Griffin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Irish
"Griffin's stunning debut, brimming with irresistible Irish-isms, is an elegy to love, loss and the complexity of life." -People Magazine One of Goodreads' 43 Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & INDIE NEXT PICK "Beautiful. Intimate. Tearful. Aching and lyrical. So simply an ...Show more
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
$34.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend ...Show more
Lost in the Spanish Quarter by Heddi Goodrich
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Told with the intimacy and ferocity of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels and set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in the city they so desperately want to call home. Several years ...Show more
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo; Karina Sainz Borgo
$35.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman's desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, ex ...Show more