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Graphite by Varlam Shalámov; John Glad (Translator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Nearly three million people died in the forced-labour camps of Kolyma, the northeastern region of Siberia. Varlam Shalamov, considered by many to be Russia's greatest living writer, spent 17 years there and set down the Kolyma experience in powerful short stories.
The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: The\Shannara Ser. | Reading Level: very good
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FANTASY TALES OF ALL TIME. NOW AN EPIC TV SERIES. Thousands of years after the destruction of the age of man an d science, new races and magic now rule the world, but an imminent danger threatens. A horde of evil Demons is beginning to escape and bring death upon the land. Only ...Show more
Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as "The Second Machine," "Lamb to the Slaughter," "Neck," and "The Landlady." Other stories explore ...Show more
More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The late Roald Dahl was acknowledged as a master of the macabre and the unexpected. This collection contains nine of his best short stories, including 'Georgy Porgy', 'Poison' and 'The Sound Machine'.
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
What kind of person keeps a man underground for seven years? And who would agree to be part of such an experiment? The year is 1792 and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. He is determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on another human being, though before now Powyss's ...Show more
Hunted by Meagan Spooner
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget.Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood. After al ...Show more
Timeless - Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic by Armand Baltazar
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Timeless | Reading Level: near fine
Author-artist Baltazar presents the first book in an epic fantasy adventure that sends Diego through a world where past, present, and future coexist. Complete with stunning cinematic black-and-white and color illustrations.
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for h ...Show more
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, plots an escape from his native country, from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him - and from what he is sure is impending revolution. However, arriving at last in London, he begins the dark pilgrimage of an outsider.
Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries - Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England by Richard Hillyer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
As an exceptionally long-lived author (1588-1679) whose protracted development, late appearance in print, subsequent muzzling, and profound notoriety raise fascinating questions about how, when, and to what effect his thinking exerted an impact as he sought to transform an entire culture, Hobbes supplie ...Show more
A Way in the World by V. S. Naipaul
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism.Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories ...Show more
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good