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The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
$8.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his new-found happiness is threatened, his respo ...Show more
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy Williams
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries | Reading Level: very good
The legendary writer's first collection in more than ten years--and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shiftin ...Show more
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
$20.00 NZD
Category: America | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: very good
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume IV - The Passage of Power : by Robert A Caro
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NAMED BY "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR"The fourth volume of Caro's prodigious masterwork . . . with the author's signature combination of sweeping drama, psychological insight and painstaking research."NAMED ONE OF "TIME "MAGA ...Show more
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in England. Off stage, however, she is bored with her husband. She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan, then thrilled by his persistence - and at last wildly but dangerously in love.
This Quiet Dust by William Styron
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good
Part of the non-fiction titles which addresses great moral issues.
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals m ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the violent, intolerant, eccentric, humorous and prejudiced Deep South, seen through the eyes of children in the 1930s. Scout and Jem Finch lose their innocence when their lawyer father defends a Negro charged with the rape of a white girl.
To Kill a Mockingbird (Vintage Classics) by Harper Lee
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more