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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
23.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Fiction Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
A novel set in India during the Emergency, by the author of "Such a Long Journey". In the tiny flat of the widowed Dina Dalal, two tailors and a young student struggle to put together a new life of sorts amid the crisis, and in the course of doing so encounter a vivid cast of characters.
A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Abdulrazak Gurnah (Introduction by)
24.95 NZD
33.00 (24% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It is 1963 and Kenya is on the verge of Uhuru - independence day. The mighty British government has been toppled, and in the lull between the fighting and the new world, colonised and coloniser alike reflect on what they have gained and lost. In the village of Thabai, the men and women who live there h ...Show more
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
38.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: C S Lewis Harper Classics
In this classic trial of faith, C. S. Lewis probes the fundamental issues of life and death, and summons those who grieve to honest mourning and hope in the midst of loss.
A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Tess Newall; Alex Goodwin
21.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The ultimate and timeless Christmas story, with cuddly guinea pigs in the starring roles Miserable to the core and wholly unwilling to extend a paw to help those in desperate need, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge says "bah, Humbug " to the festive season. But one night he is visited by three Christmas Sp ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Nativity by BLOOMSBURY
18.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
You know the story ...Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there's no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (yo ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
22.99 NZD
Category: Pets | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series.''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse' But sit down by the fire with some chocolates to hand, And you'll be welcomed into a magical land. There is snow and some moon ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist by Alex Goodwin
18.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens's most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs. In the misery of a workhouse, a poor, fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed on nothing but thin air and even thinner gruel. By squeaking a fateful question - ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
9.95 NZD
23.00 (56% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
19.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
asper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say. He knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only cpompanion is his kestrel hawk and, like himself, with the will to destroy or be destroyed. Filmed as 'Kes' by Ken Loach.
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy
24.99 NZD
29.00 (13% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits ancient Stancy Castle. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the work, but is then torn between George's admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-look ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
17.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural Normandy that de Maupassant knew as a child, the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature. They focus o ...Show more