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GRANTA 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$22.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath... Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$26.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) wi ...Show more
The Art of the Glimpse : 100 Irish Short Stories by Sinéad Gleeson (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this. The Art of the Glimpseis a radical revision of the canon of the Irish story, uniting ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$37.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more
American Drolleries: Selected Stories by Mark Twain
$24.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
In these stories Mark Twain takes us from the sleepy banks of the Mississippi, through frontier towns and across the deserted gold plains of California. We encounter his countryfolk in all their bizzare variety: a cannibalistic ex-senator, a compulsive gambler, phoney travelling salesmen and a bumbling ...Show more
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A novel to treasure' Sunday Times Olive, Again follows ...Show more
That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu
$24.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 ___________________________________ 'A dreamy, impressionistic offering of reassembled fragments of memories emerging through the misty beauty of a deliciously individualistic poetic sensibility . . . remind[s] us of what has been missing from British poetry. I c ...Show more
Unquiet by Linn Ullman ( Ullmann )
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics
'Linn Ullmann has written something of beauty and solace and truth. I don't know how she managed to sail across such dangerous waters' RACHEL CUSK He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, by the actress he directed and once loved. Each summer of her childho ...Show more
Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature. From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers' deepest emotions. Poe's stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insigh ...Show more
Snow by John Banville
$32.99 NZD
Category: Crime
'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family - Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin ...Show more