Touching the Void (Vintage Voyages) by Joe Simpson
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few da ...Show more
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages) by Tim Butcher
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhen Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the pla ...Show more
Travels With My Aunt: (Vintage Voyages) by Graham Greene
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southw ...Show more
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police ...Show more
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic
For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. "The Book of Tea" was originally written in English and sought to ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel, that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on ou ...Show more
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
25.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilli ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'This terse account ...Show more
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For ...Show more