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Absolute Zero (The Bagthorpe Saga #2) by Helen Cresswell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Collins Modern Classics
The second book in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever sin ...Show more
All The Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics) by Anthony Doerr
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
Americanah (Collins Modern Classics) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A delicious, important novel' The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping' Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifem ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sk ...Show more
Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
$17.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
The Fellowhip of the Ring is the first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, voted Book of the Century in major polls. In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
$22.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. When No Logo was first published, it became an instant bestseller and international phenome ...Show more
Return of the King (Lord of the Rings #3) by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
$17.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics S. | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. (Preceeding text courtesy www.fireandwater.com) Coll ...Show more
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: Collins Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy. The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knwe that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn't the first time she'd been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly evil Carm ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, ...Show more
The Kingdom by the Sea (Essential Modern Classics) by Robert Westall
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Guaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list. When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live w ...Show more
The Two Towers (#2 The Lord of the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
$17.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics | Reading Level: 12+
The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone that is, save for a mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go...