Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'The play of moonlight on the icebergs was indescribably strange, and its magnificent refracted shimmers were brighter than day. One night, fooled by its brilliance, I got up at three in the morning.' Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Kpomassie grew ...Show more
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
Winner of the Smarties Gold Medal and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.A beautiful edition of the much-loved adventure story by Eva Ibbotson with a foreword by Lauren St John.Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon. She imagines ...Show more
My Heart's in the Highlands - Classic Scottish Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
My Heart's In the Highlands: Classic Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of classic poems and verse introduced by the acclaimed poet, John Glenday. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These ...Show more
Animal Farm (Dyslexia-Friendly Classics) (Barrington Stoke) by George Orwell
21.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Dyslexia-Friendly Classics Ser.
Orwell's powerful, unnerving and timeless allegory of oppression and rebellion, brought to life for a new age of readers in a stunning dyslexia-friendly edition. When the lazy and drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm forgets to feed his livestock the down-trodden and over-worked animals unite to take back th ...Show more
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
An Area of Darkness by V S Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make ...Show more
In a Free State by V S Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful ...Show more
Candide, or the Optimist (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Voltaire
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for an ...Show more
Siddhartha (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hermann Hesse
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What is the purpose of life? Is religion the answer? How, in a world beset with misery and conflict, can we help to find inner peace? Siddhartha helped inspire the legions of counter-cultural 'hippies' and other refuseniks who challenged the Western capitalist order in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to yo ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A reissue of Willa Cather's best-loved novel and a beautiful portrayal of frontier life in Nebraska now with a new introduction by travel writer Sara Wheeler When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant ntonia ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more