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Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. Thi...

This 1977 Whitcoulls Paperback is in good condition. Some foxing to the edges of pages; small stain to teh cover at the spine. ISBN: 9780723304999 SKU: 1572470 This image is of the actual book.

Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretar...

This 1973 Pan Paperback is in fair condition. ISBN: 0330234234 SKU: 1572483 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Empire of the Moghul series. 1530, Agra, Northern India. Humayun, the newly-crowned second Moghul Emperor, is a fortunate man. His father, Babur, has bequeathed him wealth, glory and an empire which stretches a thousand miles south from the Khyber pass; he must now build on his legacy, and make the ...

What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills People think I'm funny Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise...

Coming Of Age Isn't Just For Kids. In A Small Town In Upstate New York, Astrid Strick - Mother To Three Grown-up Children - Is Keeping The Kind Of Secret That Once Upon A Time Would Have Rocked The Very Foundations Of Her Careful, Suburban Life. But Thankfully The World Is Changing And, With It, Her...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to ...

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature - the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christeni...

Landfall is New Zealand's foremost and longest-running arts and literary journal. Published twice a year, each volume showcases two full-colour art portfolios and brims with vital new fiction, poetry, cultural commentary, reviews, and biographical and critical essays. Bringing together a range of vo...

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentr...

This 1963 Peter Davies Hardback is in good condition. No DJ. Cover rubbed, with small stain at the spine; minor foxing to the edges of pages. SKU: 1572422 This image is of the actual book.

This 1998 Faber Faber Paperback is in good condition. Paperback with dust jacket; some tanning. ISBN: 9780571195299 SKU: 1572415 This image is of the actual book.

This 1975 Blandford Press Hardback is in good condition. No DJ As Issued; Owner's Name inside. Cover rubbed; some annotations in pen on the first few pages. ISBN: 0713700211 SKU: 1572414 This image is of the actual book.

Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen. Her striking fitness instructor, Anahera, is ready to throw in the towel on her job and marriage. With stolen money and a dog in tow they run away and buy Baby', an old boat docked in the Bay of Islands, where Cynthia ...

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the fat...

Marty, a handsome and virile tennis pro, used to be a champion, getting his way with guys on court and women off it. No more. A hit-and-run accident three years ago put an end to that. It cost him both his legs. But Marty's in good shape. Still a champion - a champion wheelchair racer. And he's stil...

After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission- to find out who is trying to assassinate him. In the process, Bourne begins to question who he really is and what he would become if he no longer carried the Bourne identity. Acro...

Oscar Wildes only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror n...

From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of Popcorn and Inconceivable. a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame. One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people su...

This 1996 J. Cape Paperback is in good condition. ISBN: 9780224043434 SKU: 1572389 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

This 1964 Blackwood and Janet Paul Hardback is in fair condition. DJ; Owner's Name inside. DJ rubbed and disoloured; spotting to the end papers; some notes. SKU: 1572384 This image is of the actual book.

Marie Broom and her husband Vincent enjoy a pleasant life on Hong Kong Island. Vincent is a New Zealander. Marie is Portuguese-Chinese. Married for ten years, the couple have four adored childrendaughters aged 9, 8, and 5, and a baby son of 14 months. Vincents job as a marine engineer often takes hi...

A classic Margaret Forster novel with the same satisfying appeal as her bestselling Diary of an Ordinary Woman the story of an actual early 20th century painting and its fictional adventures through the century and of the women whose lives it touches. This 2007 Vintage Books Paperback is in good con...