Brideshead Revisited: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and na vet continue to charm. This volume ...Show more
The Parihaka Woman by Witi Ihimaera
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. /b>here has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact a ...Show more
Inheritance by Jenny Pattrick
Category: NZ Fiction
Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. But why should Jeanie avoid her after twenty-four years apart? They had been so close when they were young women, when Jeanie had turned up in Samoa with her bullying husband and gentle father, who had unexpectedly inherite ...Show more
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built - SIGNED by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: The\No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Ser.
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dazzling short fiction from Booker Prize winner, Margaret Atwood. One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations b ...Show more
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 8 | Reading Level: good-very good
As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency there are the usual number of cases to be pursued, from ...Show more
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 2 | Reading Level: good-very good
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe, McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ...Am ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"To the Lighthouse" is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel and is widely acknowledged as being among the greatest literary achievements of this century. It is also the most popular of all her novels. It is set on a Hebridean island where the Ramsay family as well as various guests enjoy the long summer in each ...Show more
Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins by Hunter S. Thompson
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.'A phalanx of motorcycl ...Show more