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Age of Assassins: The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World by Michael Newton
$12.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American 'rob ...Show more
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse; Michael Newton (Editor)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The classic of memoir of inter-generational strife, with an afterword from author of The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry and an introduction from Anthony Quinn Subtitled 'a study of two temperaments' Edmund Gosse's childhood memoir tells the often fractious, often comic story of Gosse's relationship with hi ...Show more
Rosemary's Baby by Michael Newton
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Rosemary's Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding modern Gothic tale. An art-house fable and an elegant popular entertainment, it finds its home on the cusp between a cinema of sentiment and one of sensation. Michael Newton's study o ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible. . . . He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients."--Dorothy Scarborough This new se ...Show more
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton (Editor)
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central ...Show more
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the period, which includes some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth-century canon such as Thackeray, Oscar Wil ...Show more
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