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BEND SINISTER by NABOKOV VLADIMIR
32.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, ...Show more
Ballet Stories by Margaret Greaves
29.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: The\Classics Ser.
Beloved by all little girls, ballet stories enchant and open a world of magic. This collection of eight favourite ballet stories is filled with that magic and promise. The stories and sparkling illustrations will delight for years.
Banjo Paterson: Collected Verse by Banjo Paterson
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Australian Classics Ser.
The poet A B 'Banjo' Paterson, best known for his rousing folk classics "The Man from Snowy River" and "Waltzing Matilda," is widely acknowledged as Australia's greatest and most popular balladist. His poems, written with great gusto and humour, celebrate all the romance and rough-and-tumble of old Aust ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
25.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
28.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky.
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party i ...Show more
Beowulf (Chartwell Classics) by Earle, John
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
In this Anglo-Saxon epic, the hero Beowulf fights horrifying, ghastly monsters in his bid to save the hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes. Composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer toward the end of the first millennium CE, Beowulf is an Old English epic tale recounting the adventures of Beowulf, ...Show more
Black Arrow The by Robert Louis Stevenson
27.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". In order to survive he must distinguish friend from foe and confront the tests of war, shipwreck, murder and forbidden ...Show more
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs 'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette Winterson. This is the story of Janey, who lived in a l ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Secon ...Show more
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Bulfinch's Mythology (Knickerbocker Cl.. by Thomas Bulfinch; Robert Hanks (Introduction by)
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
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