The Cursed Bus and Other Writings by James West
$8.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Josiah Morgan - I'm Still Growing by Josiah Morgan
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
After publishing his first four books in the United States, i’m still growing brings the poetry of Josiah Morgan (Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) into print in Aotearoa for the first time. i’m still growing is a book of identities that shape-shift among the darkening landscape of mundane, suburban New Zeal ...Show more
Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S as a form of therapy. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he explores the import ...Show more
The Adventure of the Speckled Band and other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
Islands in the Stream is the first of the posthumously published novels of Ernest Hemingway. The book was originally intended to revive Hemingway's reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951.
The Centaur by John Updike
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A triumph of love and art." THE WASHINGTON POST In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with h ...Show more
His Last Bow - Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Unusual for a Sherlock Holmes story, "His Last Bow" is a short spy story as opposed to a detective-centered mystery. It is also told in the third person, as opposed to the first. No one is entirely sure why. However, it's said that the story could have been designed to boost public morale during the Fir ...Show more
The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this "very smart" and suspenseful novel (The New York Times Book Review). Liz Headleand is one of London's best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she arrives at work to find a mysterious package, postmarked from Camb ...Show more