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Chernobyl Prayer - Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' - Arundhati Roy, Elle'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Ale ...Show more
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Fa ...Show more
Complete Short Stories by Robert Graves
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet's daughter Lucia Graves.
Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. "Mr Loveday's Little Outing" is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; "Cruise" s ...Show more
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose ...Show more
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest American authors of the 20th century, Wallace Stegner compiled an impressive collection of accolades during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a National Book Award, and three O. Henry Awards. His final novel, Crossing to Safety is the quiet yet stirring tale of two ...Show more
Decline And Fall (TV Tie in) by Evelyn Waugh
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the new BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's priso ...Show more
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari i ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrele ...Show more
Down in the Valley - A Writer's Landscape by Laurie Lee
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood ...Show more