The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What does a great detective do when he's stuck in bed? Inspector Grant is used to prowling the streets, solving crimes and unraveling mysteries, so when he finds himself bedridden in the hospital, he needs something to occupy his mind.He turns his attention to the figure of Richard III--generally consid ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
Category: Classics
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
Category: Classics
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Lord Peter Wimsey, wealthy, charming and charismatic, is one of the most famous amateur detectives of ...Show more
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The famous classic Scottish tale based on the true story of a dog's devotion to his master, first published in 1912, loved and widely read all over the world.Bobby, a sparky silver-haired Skye terrier, adopts lonely shepherd Auld Jock, for his master and the two become inseparable. When Jock is dismisse ...Show more
Kidnapped: Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in search of him. His uncle Ebenzer is far from welcoming, however, and David, after barely escaping with his life, finds himself kidnapped and bound for America, where he is to b ...Show more
The Art Book by Phaidon Editors
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Second Edition of The Art Book is a substantially expanded and updated version of the hugely successful original. Introducing 100 new artists selected from all periods and from across the globe, the new edition includes for the first time leading figures from the fields of photography and performanc ...Show more
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tess of the d'Urbervilles ,A Pure Woman Faithfully PresentedThomas Hardy"Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to t ...Show more
Heart of Darkness & other stories: & other stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Joseph Conrad
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Jonty Claypole (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathan ...Show more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he beca ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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