Three Men in a Boat: Popular Penguins by Jerome K. Jerome
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
The Beach by Alex Garland
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok -- first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his w ...Show more
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins by L. P. Hartley
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in he ...Show more
The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
The Pearl: Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Popular Penguins by Muriel Spark
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins) by Elizabeth Jolley
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farthe ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty Four (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more
Royals by Emma Forrest
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Charming, witty and touching, an Eighties Breakfast at Tiffany's' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Dazzling ... I'm incoherent with love for it' MARIAN KEYES July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe - he hasn' ...Show more
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Awakening originally titled, A Solitary Soul, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the ...Show more