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Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times. Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc bring ...Show more
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Book 1 (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ian Fleming, Joe Berger
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle; Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. Chitty and the ...Show more
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
David Copperfield (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. The early scenes are particularly masterful, depicting the world as seen from the persp ...Show more
Dracula (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Bram Stoker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is unprepared to face. When that evil escapes to England, the entire nation is suddenly under threat and only an aged vampire hunter, Professor Abraham Van H ...Show more
Emma (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own he ...Show more
Five Children and It (Macmillan Collector's Library) by E. Nesbit
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
** NEW ** Whilst out playing in the countryside, five children come across a Psammead called 'It' – a cantankerous little sand fairy who agrees to grant them one wish every day, though its effects will only last until sunset. The possibilities seem endless to the adventurous siblings but whatever th ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning clothb ...Show more
Great Expectations (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$15.00 NZD
$20.00 (25% off)
Category: Gardening | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Happy Hour: Poems to Raise a Glass to (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gift Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Happy Hour is a gorgeous gift book of classic poetry which fizzes with poetry about all kinds of drink, drinkers and drinking place. All this and more is introduced by celebrated wine critic Jancis Robinson.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbo ...Show more
I Capture the Castle (Macmillan Collector's Edition) by Dodie Smith
$15.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction (Ages 8-12) | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more