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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
Casanova in Bolzano by Sándor Márai;Géorge Szirtes (Translator)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose Embers became an international bestseller--a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world's most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfa ...Show more
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Future Classics S. | Reading Level: good-very good
Published in 1961, this book presents a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Children of Light by Robert Stone
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
By "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (The New York Review of Books), Children of Light is a searing, indelible love story of two ravaged spirits, played out under the merciless, magnifying prism of Hollywood. Gordon Walker, screenwriter and actor, has systematically ruined his ...Show more
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
$7.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Coasting: A Private Journey by Jonathan Raban
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage which coincided with the ...Show more
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This title includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla, are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues a ...Show more
Crow Country A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature by Mark Cocker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to ...Show more
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
$7.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work ...Show more
Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE(R) IN LITERATURE 2013 A "New York Times" Notable BookA "Washington Post" Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: "The Atlantic, "NPR, "San Francisco Chronicle," "Vogue," "AV Club"In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a p ...Show more
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...Show more