Moomin - The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book Four by Tove Jansson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Moomin Comic Strip
More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artistDrawn & Quarterly's bestselling Moomin series, created by the legendary children's author Tove Jansson, is now in its fourth installment. The series is the winner of the Harvey Award and has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards.
Moomin - The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book Three by Tove Jansson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Moomin Comic Strip
"Moomin "has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the "London Evening News "in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson's observations of everyday ...Show more
Moomin - The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book Two by Tove Jansson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Moomin Comic Strip
In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic "Moomin" comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with th ...Show more
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he explores the import ...Show more
The Adventure of the Speckled Band and other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Islands in the Stream is the first of the posthumously published novels of Ernest Hemingway. The book was originally intended to revive Hemingway's reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951.
The Centaur by John Updike
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with h ...Show more
His Last Bow - Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Unusual for a Sherlock Holmes story, "His Last Bow" is a short spy story as opposed to a detective-centered mystery. It is also told in the third person, as opposed to the first. No one is entirely sure why. However, it's said that the story could have been designed to boost public morale during the Fir ...Show more
The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this "very smart" and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review). Liz Headleand is one of London's best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she arrives at work to find a mysterious package, postmarked from Camb ...Show more