The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
70.00 NZD
Category: Modern Fiction
The novel is set in the Roman city of Pompeii, which was famously destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The book combines historical detail with a dramatic and romantic narrative, offering a vivid portrayal of the city and its final days.
Night and Morning by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
70.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The novel is a historical romance set in the early 19th century and explores themes of redemption, social justice, and the contrasts between night (darkness) and morning (hope).
Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
42.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path. Vivien has the ability to transform herself into magical images, and here she becomes Morgan Le Fay, sea priestess of A ...Show more
The Mercy of God by Jean Cau
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A French Novel in the tradition of Sartre and Camus, a novel of ideas, but with the philosophy implicit rather than expounded.
Transcendent Kingdom: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 by Yaa Gyasi
35.00 NZD
Category: Modern Fiction
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying ...Show more
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller by Octavia E. Butler
35.00 NZD
Category: Modern Fiction | Series: Earthseed 1 | Reading Level: very good
This first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid's Tale, you'll love this beautiful new edition of a seminal American classic. 'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, i ...Show more
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is a masterful study of obsession. This "Penguin Classics" edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk. 'Call me Ishmael.' So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest wo ...Show more
The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
1927. Times are tough in rural Kentucky. With their mother dead and their stepfather looming as an ever-present threat, sisters Bertie and Mabel Fischer have no one to lean on but each other. Then a choice made in desperation sets off a chain of misunderstandings that will divide the sisters and resonat ...Show more
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
150.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celes ...Show more
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celes ...Show more
Britannica: The Great Books. The Iliad of Homer - The Odyssey by Homer
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Great Books of the Western Vol. 4 The Iliad Of Homer; The Odyssey
Across Two Seas by H. A. Forde
200.00 NZD
Category: Early New Zealand
Across Two Seas : a New Zealand Tale.