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Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...
Delta of Venus
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...
Boy Overboard
Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A story of adventure, ball control and hope. Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one...
Once
Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Once I escaped from an orphanage to find my Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda...
The Trouble With Being Born
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
The Wretched of the Earth
Author: Frantz Fanon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist...
The Explorers: Text Classics
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving...
Black Tide: Jack Irish, Book Two
Author: Peter Temple Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The award-winning second novel in the Melbourne crime series featuring Peter Temple's best loved character- Jack Irish-lawyer, gambler, part-time...
Writings from Ancient Egypt
Author: Toby Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The essential writings of ancient Egypt, from songs to stories, newly translated 'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust;...
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a man is found dead at home Maigret must look past the seemingly good intentions of the victim's...
Blueback
Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An achingly beautiful story about family, belonging and living a life in tune with the environment, from one of...
Maigret is Afraid: Inspector Maigret #42
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An impromptu visit to an old school friend in the Vendee draws Maigret into a disturbing local investigation. The...
Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21): from the bestselling series that inspired BBC's The Watch
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The twenty-first Discworld novel. Fourth book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC's The...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Author: David Graeber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows...
The Pearl: Popular Penguins
Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 100 When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically...
The Penguin Book of Haiku
Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...
Nausea
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Brighton Rock
Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes
Author: Rick Riordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 If you like poisonings, betrayals, mutilations, murders and flesh-eating farmyard animals, keep reading . . . In this gripping...
Steppenwolf
Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering,...
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...
Maigret at the Coroner's: Inspector Maigret #32
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods, when a visit to a coroner's inquest in...
Somme: Into the Breach
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
The History of the Kings of Britain
Author: Geoffrey Monmouth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
Author: Thomas Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space...
Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby...
April Lady: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dashing tale of romance and heroism told by one of the bestselling and greatest historical novelists of...
Fictions
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find...
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Her heart became faint with terror . . . she saw the door move, and then slowly open' Emily...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
Let's Eat Weeds!: a kids' guide to foraging
Author: Annie Raser-Rowland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 From salads to main dishes, edible weeds are delicious! Find out how to identify them, where and when to find them,...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Part of the Vintage Classics Bronte Series- three sisters, three major novels, beautifully designed Too often overshadowed by her...
Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
The Iliad
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...
The Road to Wigan Pier
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...
The Decay of Lying
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive...
The Little Drummer Girl: Now a BBC series
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Enthralling and thought-provoking, The Little Drummer Girl is le Carre's only spy novel set in the Middle East,...
Poems
Author: Wilfred Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets. I mean the truth untold, The pity...
Ten Days That Shook the World
Author: John Reed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the...
Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Malcolm Gladwell shows why the story of success is far more surprising, and more fascinating, than we could ever...