Ways Of Escape by Graham Greene
$30.00 NZD
Category: Graham Greene
With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebel ...Show more
The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last... But as they do so, one of their number falls to the ground - a man, stabbed in the back with a stiletto while people jostled for position in the throng. There is nothing in the man's ...Show more
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writersImpish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in ...Show more
Ironweed by William Kennedy
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"Ironweed," winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of "William Kennedy"'s three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away agai ...Show more
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics
'Manuscripts don't burn'
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Māori. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story of a father and son set within ...Show more
The Luck of the Bodkins by P. G. Wodehouse
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
This is a P.G. Wodehouse novel. Seize this wonderful chance to embark on a Wodehousian voyage on the luxurious liner S.S. Atlantic - in the company of Monty Bodkin, whose passion for Gertrude Butterwick knows no bounds (except those set by the wild-at-heart Hollywood starlet Lotus Blossom and her pet al ...Show more
It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene
$27.00 NZD
Category: Graham Greene | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a ...Show more
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
$26.00 NZD
Category: Graham Greene | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, "Monsignor Quixote" offers enduring insights into our life and times.
The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
$33.00 NZD
Category: Graham Greene
Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and ...Show more
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
$30.00 NZD
Category: Graham Greene | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem by Arthur Miller
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
This play tells the story of Willy Loman, an ageing salesman, who is a failure in both his business and private life. Fired by his firm, ignored by his children, his humiliation ends in suicide.