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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a myste ...Show more
A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
An extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titl ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by James Joyce
32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
17.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia by Laurie Lee
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashes slums, the cult of t ...Show more
A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
25.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
A Tale of Two Cities (PB Vintage Classics) by Charles Dickens; Hablot Knight Browne
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
A View from the Bridge and All My Sons by Arthur Miller
24.99 NZD
26.00 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"A View From the Bridge" features Eddie, an illiterate longshoreman. His progress towards self discovery and fall is detailed in this drama. The second play, "All My Sons", is a merciless exposure of wartime profiteering and the capitalist ethic.
A-Z Of Embroidery Stitches
37.99 NZD
Category: Crafts | Series: Search Press Classics
This comprehensive guide to embroidery stitches contains all the embroiderer needs to know to work dozens of stitches, and includes full advice on everything from choosing materials, beginning and ending a thread and using hoops to working as a left-handed embroiderer and learning how to paint threads. ...Show more
A-Z of Embroidered Motifs by Country Bumpkin Publications
37.99 NZD
Category: Crafts | Series: Search Press Classics
From clowns to airships to roses and lavender, this book features over 120 bullion designs, 146 step by step photographs, hints, expert's articles and patterns. it is full of inspirational ideas and practical advice. Beautifully photographed and illustrated, each individual motif is a miniature work of ...Show more