Big Ideas from Literature: How Books Can Change Your World by The School of Life
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary
Great stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them.This book is an exploration of the ideas found in books, that teach children through the wonderful stories they tell. Books can be so powerful, helping us through tricky times, offering us wisdom we haven't learnt ...Show more
Prophet Song: Winner of the Booker Prize 2023 by Paul Lynch
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literary
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
Naag Mountain by Manisha Anjali
$32.99 NZD
Category: Literary
A remarkable debut collection by an Australian and New Zealand poet of Indo-Fijian background, the descendant of indentured labourers. Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, w ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Introduction by)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literary
Dostoyevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues-brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality-that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-centur ...Show more
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
$32.99 NZD
Category: Literary | Series: A Touchstone book | Reading Level: very good
With half a million copies in print, " How to Read a Book" is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a "living" classic that introduces and eluci ...Show more
A Shining by Jon Fosse
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literary
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the ma ...Show more
The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisation by Richard Shaw
$39.99 NZD
Category: Literary
WHAT IT MEANS TO OWN YOUR PAST After Richard Shaw published his acclaimed memoir The Forgotten Coast in 2021, he made contact with Pakeha with long settler histories who were coming to grips with the truth of their respective families' 'pioneer stories'. They were questioning the foundation of aggressi ...Show more
The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais
$38.00 NZD
Category: Literary
In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the man ...Show more
The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
In Call of the Wild, Buck lives as a pampered house dog in California. He eats well, sleeps when he wants, and is treated with affection by his owners--that is, until he is abducted by thieves and pressed into service as a sled dog for the Klondike Gold Rush. Mistreated by a succession of abusive owners ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$22.99 NZD
Category: Literary | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more
Heidi (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Children’s Edition) by Johanna Spyri
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literary
Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! Can Heidi find her way back to the purple mountains of Switzerland to be with her grandfather again? At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in th ...Show more
Tales of the Damned (HB) by Matt Ralphs
$49.99 NZD
Category: Literary
An anthology of terrifying tales from around the world.