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The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
$6.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers joins his friend Davies on a yachting expedition in the Baltic. But Davies has more on his mind than killing fowl. As they navigate the waters and treacherous, shifting sands on board the Dulcibella, Carruthers learns the real reason behind their trip - a ...Show more
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.' The greatest opening line in New Zealand literature opens this hilarious Gothic melodrama. Klynham is a sleepy little New Zealand town in which not a lot happens. But then one moonlit night the Scarecrow arrives, swilling brandies a ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$5.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
The Skinny Louie Book (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Farrell
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century. Fiona Farrell's The Skinny Louie Book - always moving, often hilarious - i ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
$6.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins by John Buchan
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la ...Show more
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
$7.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as leader of a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir - only Kahu. ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Usage & Abusage by Eric Partridge
$7.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Usage and Abusage is Penguin's classic linguistic reference book that not only tells you how to use English correctly, but is also a declaration of war on its misuse. Covering grammatical problems, words that are commonly abused and confused, matters of style, as well as providing advice on how to commu ...Show more
Washington Square (Popular Penguin) by Henry James
$6.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more