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Calm by Tim Parks
$4.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tac ...Show more
Desire: Vintage Minis by Haruki Murakami
$5.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger ...Show more
Jealousy by Marcel Proust
$4.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try and possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first ...Show more
Science by Ian McEwan
$5.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Work by Joseph Heller
$3.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Penguin Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Heller's workplace is a cradle of paranoia, bravado an ...Show more
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