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I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecut ...Show more
Life Class by Pat Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The first novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart 'Triumphant, inspiring, shattering' The Time ...Show more
Out Of Africa: Penguin Essentials by Karen Blixen
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought- Here I am, where I ought to be.'From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials 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
The Snow Goose & The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you we ...Show more
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