The Crisis by Winston Churchill
40.00 NZD
Category: Literature
The novel is set against the backdrop of a fictional European country facing a significant political and social upheaval. The plot revolves around the efforts of the protagonist, a young politician, to navigate and resolve the crisis engulfing his country.
Childhood's Pattern - A Study of the Heroes and Heroines of Children's Fiction, 1770-1950 by Gillian Avery
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics/Rare
This book studies analyses different heroes and heroins in childhood literature from the 1700s-1900s
Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award by Octavia E. Butler
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Earthseed 2 | Reading Level: very good
This sequel to Parable of the Sower by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid's Tale or couldn't put down The Power, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic. 'In the ongoing contest over whic ...Show more
Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch
80.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power, and privilege...the story of the powerful Van Zale clan, and the man, Cornelius Van Zale, whose dynastic struggle to control a great fortune becomes the center of his life. When the world of the Van Zales, of servants ...Show more
OM - the Secret of Ahbor Valley by Talbot Mundy
10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Talbot Mundy (1879 - 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp mag ...Show more
Cleopatra Dismounts - A Novel by Carmen. Boullosa; Geoff Hargreaves (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America's most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable reconstruction of the life of the Egyptian queen, who famously died in Marc Antony's arms. But is this really the true Cleopatra?Through the intervention of Cleopatra's scribe and info ...Show more
Steinbeck John : East of Eden (C20)
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Tr ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to ...Show more
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by ANTHONY BURGESS
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable abo ...Show more
The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. 1867-1942 Grace
265.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Tale of Timber Town, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations.
Mr. Midshipman Easy by C. S. Forester
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hornblower Ser.
Horatio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this "absolutely compelling" (San Francisco Chronicle) first installment of C. S. Forester's classic naval adventure series. The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschoole ...Show more
A U.S. Midshipman in the South Seas by Yates Stirling Jr.
50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A United States Midshipman in the South Seas