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A Rage in Harlem by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing t ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi ...Show more
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. And now life seems more complicated every day. Her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have b ...Show more
All Shot Up by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York Times A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important ...Show more
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out. This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosm ...Show more
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thrillerAn unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackma ...Show more
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks nonetheless on a search to rediscover his grandmother, no long dead ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionageEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in ...Show more