The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings, Part 1 by J R R Tolkien
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: The Lord of the Rings
The first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, now in B format paperback with a black cover based on Tolkien's own design. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power -- the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion ...Show more
The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings, Part 3 by J R R Tolkien
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: The Lord of the Rings
The final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, now in B format paperback with a black cover based on Tolkien's own design. The climactic volume of the trilogy, wherein the little hobbit and his trusty companions make a terrible journey to the heart of the land of the Shadow in a fi ...Show more
The Two Towers: The Lord of the Rings, Part 2 by J R R Tolkien
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: The Lord of the Rings
The second part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover designed to complement the new 'History of Middle-earth' series. This edition, styled to complement the new 'History of Middle-earth' series, tells the story of Frodo and the Companions of the Ring, who ha ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
Man Alone (Popular Penguin) by John Mulgan
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the central North Island, where he work as a farm hand. An affair with his boss’s wife and the accidental killing of his boss cause him to flee across r ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
The Captive Wife (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Kidman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened s ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
$16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Classics
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more