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Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$30.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
$12.99 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
$115.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End by Winston Churchill
$17.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
'Wars are not won by evacuations'. 'We can take it'! 'Westward look, the land is bright'. This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 after Dunkirk, and ...Show more
We the Living by Ayn Rand
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiogr ...Show more
Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Wendell Berry
$11.00 NZD
$18.00 (38% off)
Category: Environment & Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, these powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to mend our broken relationship with the earth, and with each other.
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Simone de Beauvoir
$13.00 NZD
$20.00 (35% off)
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own des ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube: The District Line (Penguin Underground Lines) by John Lanchester
$12.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Penguin Underground Lines
John Lanchester, author of Whoops! and Capital takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Tube to show its secrets, just how much we take for granted about it, and what we're really talking about, since we so often do talk about it. In short, he shows what a marvel it is - part of a series of twelve books tied ...Show more
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissio ...Show more
What a Carve Up!: Penguin Street Art by Jonathan Coe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
'Tragedy had struck the Winshaws twice before, but never on such a terrible scale' Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into carparks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livest ...Show more