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Way of Zen by Alan Watts
32.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Series: Vintage Spiritual Classics Ser.
In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion to Western readers. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clar ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri
24.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Remixed Classics Ser.
What Souls Are Made Of, British Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri’s masterful new take on Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, will leave readers breathless. Sometimes, lost things find their way home… Yorkshire, North of England, 1786. As the abandoned son of a lascar–a sailor from India–Heathcliff has ...Show more
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
27.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Oneworld Classics in Religious Studies
Buddhism continues to enjoy increasing interest in the West, both for its emphasis on reflection and meditation and as an object of scholarship. Drawing the words actually spoken by the Buddha, Rahula gives a full account of his fundamental teachings, from the Buddhist attitude of mind and meditation to ...Show more
Whatever by Michel Houellebecq; Paul Hammond (Translator); Toby Litt (Introduction by)
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist "This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington Post Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and ...Show more
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
34.95 NZD
Category: Self Improvement | Series: Shambhala Classics S.
This advice for what to do when things fall apart in our lives goes against the grain of our usual habits and expectations and confronts the reader with traditional Buddhist wisdom. The approach involves moving towards pain to discover truth and love that are indestructible.
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bu ...Show more
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
19.99 NZD
28.99 (31% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Willy Wonka Hardcover Ruled Journal by Insight Editions ((various roles))
28.99 NZD
Category: Journals | Series: Classics Ser.
Celebrate your love of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with this journal based on the classic movie. Originally released in 1971, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is one of the most endearingly popular movies of all time. Now fans can channel their inner Golden Ticket winner and record al ...Show more
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
18.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
...there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a youn ...Show more