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The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Classics
A stunningly illustrated retelling of an acclaimed fairy tale With a mix of naturalistic and surrealistic artwork, this translation captures the spirit of one of Hans Christian Andersen's most famous works. Neighbors Kai and Gerda grow up as best friends. But when Kai is swept away by the evil Snow Quee ...Show more
Tales of Horror (Alma Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his beloved blood-stained teeth, a man is obsessed with the fear of being buried ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Classics
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Penguin Threads) by Charlotte Bronte
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
This is one of the best novels ever written, in a chic new deluxe edition. Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday (Popular Penguins Crime) by G. K. Chesterton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Imprisoned within the dread ramparts of the Chateau d'If, Dantès plans his escape to t ...Show more
Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) by Jeff VanderMeer
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi | Series: Southern Reach Trilogy #1
If J.J. Abrams and Margaret Atwood collaborated on a novel, it might look something like 'Annihilation', the first in an extraordinary trilogy. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. The first expedition returned ...Show more
Generation One (Lorien Legacies Reborn #1) by Pittacus Lore
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi | Series: Lorien Legacies
Generation One is the first in a pulse-pounding new series set in the world of Pittacus Lore's I Am Number Four. It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted. Taylor Cook thought of the invasion as just a bad dream. She'd heard about teens who were suddenly developing incredible abil ...Show more
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
"Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait."--The New York Times "Hugely appealing."--People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga."--Entertainment Weekly Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The nam ...Show more
Regeneration (Popular Penguin) by Pat Barker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Regeneration by Pat Barker is a classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young - published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I just don't think our war aims -whatever they may be- and we don't know - justify this level of slaughter.'The poets and soldiers Siegfri ...Show more
The Claimant by Janette Turner Hospital
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'So then, here it is. The unadorned un-self-flattering gospel, the never-before-told story our intricately intertwined lives ...Listen: I know things that no one else knows. Trust me. ' Manhattan, 1996: the trial of the Vanderbilt claimant is finally coming to an end. The case - long, complex, riven wi ...Show more
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - Thriller | Reading Level: good
PRE LOVED - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The #1 New York Times Bestseller On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Ni ...Show more