Seven by Five by H.e. Bates

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good

Richard Young needs a change of scene. Though the Cornish town remains familiar, Richard finds himself flung back to the 14th century.

The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good

Shahid is a clean-cut student trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him to a naked rave party. Shahid's academic prospects are threatened by the intervention of his gangster brother, Chili, who, with his Armani suits and Gucci lo afers, moves into Shahid's bedsit as a hideout, bringing unnecessary danger and excitement with him. Set in London in 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fatwah, The Black Album is a thriller with a characteristically lively background: raves, ecstasy, religious ferment and sexual passion in a dangerous time. ...Show more

Gigi and the Cat by Colette

$5.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good

In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, very rich and very bored, Gigi does not want to obey the rules. In 'The Cat', a wonderful story of burgeoning sexuality and blossoming love, an exquisite strong-minded Russian Blue is struggling for mastery of Alain with his seductive fiancee, Camille. ...Show more

The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

$8.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good

There is no braver officer in Napoleon's cavalry than etienne Gerard - especially in his own opinion. Whether kidnapped by gangs of brigands or outnumbered by enemy troops, the plucky little soldier is constantly gallant, chivalrous and ready to face any danger, even if he doesn't always think before he acts. With great gusto Gerard recounts the swashbuckling exploits and adventures of his glittering military career - carrying out secret missions for Napoleon, eluding capture by the Duke of Wellington, making a daring break from an English prison, rescuing ladies in distress, duelling to the death against the dastardly Baron Straubenthal and even saving the day at the Battle of Waterloo. ...Show more

The People's Act of Love by James Meek

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good

"Doctor Zhivago . . . Anna Karenina . . . A Hero of Our Time . . . The People's Act of Love will remind you of all these books . . . Magnificent" (The Washington Post Book World). Set in a time of great social upheaval, warfare, and terrorism, and against a stark, lawless Siberia at the end of the Russ ian Revolution, The People's Act of Love portrays the fragile coexistence of a beautiful, independent mother raising her son alone, a megalomaniac Czech captain and his restless regiment, and a mystical separatist Christian sect. When a mysterious, charismatic stranger trudges into their snowy village with a frighteningly outlandish story to tell, its balance is shaken to the core. "The narrative drive is amazing. So is the cold clarity of Meek's imagination." --Stephen King "Meeks builds multiple narratives to a bloody, satisfying, yet unsettling conclusion. People's Act of Love stands not only as a keenly observed historical thriller but as a resonant tale of how one man's moral fervor can turn to horror." --Entertainment Weekly "Meek expertly renders each man's devotion to the task of securing paradise on earth, and exposes the unsettling affinity between the devout servant of God and the cold, calculating murderer." --The New Yorker "Set during the waning days of the Russian revolution, Meek's utterly absorbing novel captivates with its depiction of human nature in all its wartime extremes." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This ingenious, intricate novel, a meditation on grand ideas that is also a suspenseful page turner, avoids that too-easy wonder Russia often inspires in its admirers." --The New York Times Book Review ...Show more

Love with a Few Hairs by Mohammed Mrabet; Paul Bowles

$4.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good