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London (Vintage Minis) by Charles Dickens
$10.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Charles Dickens spent much of his working life walking the streets of London and drawing inspiration from them. The distinct London weather, the neighbourhoods, the poverty, the high society, the restlessness of the great city - Dickens describes all in his inimitable style.Selected from across Dickens' ...Show more
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for t ...Show more
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader o ...Show more
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old argume ...Show more
Murder (Vintage Minis) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Sherlock Holmes solved cases of forgery, theft and all manner of mysterious events but worst of all were the cases involving murder. Collected here are the short stories involving the darkest and most sinister of all his cases.Selected from the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MI ...Show more
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis by Aldous Huxley
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transform ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Science by Ian McEwan
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Category: General | Series: Vintage Minis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Sisters: Vintage Minis by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most fa ...Show more
Therapy (Vintage Minis) by Stephen Grosz
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Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'I want to change, but not if it means changing,' a patient once said to me in complete innocenceWhat do we do when we find ourselves trapped by our own thoughts or behaviour? Drawing on his twenty-five years' experience as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz ushers the reader through the door of his consult ...Show more