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Fatal Frost by James Henry
37.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
May, 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano, Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves and Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman, DS Waters - recently relocated from East London. While the force is busy dealing with a spate of local burglaries, the body of fifteen-year-o ...Show more
First Frost by James Henry
39.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
It's the early 1980s - Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active, and a case of rabies has just been reported in a neighbouring county. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost, now in his early forties, is working under his mentor and inspiration Detective Inspector Bert Williams. But when ...Show more
Morning Frost by James Henry
37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
November 1982. It's been one of the worst days of Detective Sergeant Jack Frost's life. He has buried his wife Mary, and must now endure the wake, attended by all of Denton's finest. All, that is, except from DC Sue Clarke, who has been summoned to the discovery of a human foot in a farmer's field. And ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.' Henry James' devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that som ...Show more
The Figure in the Carpet : Little Black Classic by Henry James
2.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 49 | Reading Level: very good
Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pengu ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
12.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It i ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
The Portrait of a Lady provides an excellent introduction to the subtle, refined, and complex world of Henry James. Unlike any author before or since, James delved deeper into the hidden worlds of his characters, in order to explore the toils and delights of their inner lives. In The Portrait of a Lady, ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: General Adult
An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care ...Show more