Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
When Social Welfare threatens to put Ricky into care, the overweight Maori boy and cantankerous Uncle Hec flee into the remote and rugged Ureweras. The impassable bush serves up perilous adventures, forcing the pair of misfits to use all their skills to survive hunger, wild pigs, and the vagaries of the ...Show more
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celes ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
150.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Aesop's Fables in the seventeenth-century translation of Sir Roger L'Estrange, with the illustrations of Percy J. Billinghurst The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a ...Show more
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
35.00 NZD
Category: Modern Fiction
Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Ceylon's independence from Britain. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing family, against the backdrop of increasing ethnic tension. As the country descends into a bloody civil war, Na ...Show more
The Land of the Lost by William Satchell
160.00 NZD
Category: Early New Zealand
The Land of the Lost - a Tale of the New Zealand Gum Country.
Hardacre's Way by William Wingate
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is a story of a professional killer. Professional killers have made appearances in many novels. Mr Wingate's killer seems to be tougher and more vengeful than any of them, yet everything he does, however bloodthirsty, has dreadful logic behind it.
Close to Colette by Maurice Goudeket translated by Enid McLeod
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An intimate portrait of a woman of genius.
African Stories by Dorris Lessing
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This, then, is Doris Lessing's Africa - where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here, as she sees them, are the complexities, the agonies and joys, the textures of African life and society.
In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw
500.00 NZD
Category: Literature
"In the Strange Seas" by Beatrice Grimshaw is a work of adventure fiction that reflects the author's fascination with exotic locales and daring escapades. Beatrice Grimshaw, known for her vivid descriptions and adventurous narratives, set this novel in the context of a maritime journey or exploration. T ...Show more
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hur ...Show more
Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Vladimir Dubrovsky is a young nobleman whose land is confiscated by a greedy and powerful aristocrat, Kirila Petrovitch Troekurov. Determined to get justice one way or another, Dubrovsky gathers a band of serfs and goes on the rampage, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Along the way, Dubrov ...Show more
Martin Eden by Jack London
10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer