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Steppenwolf by Hesse Hermann
26.00 NZD
Category: Best Sellers | Series: Penguin Essentials
'The unhappiness that I need and long for ...is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him ...Show more
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
21.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four ...Show more
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland 'Excuse me, sir, but m ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
26.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carré's new novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available.The 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling novel that launched John ...Show more
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics. ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Deali ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more