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Father of the Lost Boys

Father of the Lost Boys

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Author: Yuot A Alaak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 This is the true story of Mecak Ajang Alaak, a teacher who led 20,000 of the Lost Boys...
The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

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Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 'Ree, one of Britain's best-known living philosophers ... has delivered an impressive reimagining of what a history of philosophy...
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

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Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative...
Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will

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Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'One of the most interesting and valuable critics we possess' New Republic Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays...
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

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Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Does it feel weird to be chained to a post?' In Building 52 at an abandoned military base miles...
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants

The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants

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Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants Bound 'But what mortal man can escape The...
The Pretty Girl Killer

The Pretty Girl Killer

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Author: Andrew Byrne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The complete true story of one of the world's most horrifying serial killers, who terrorised both Australia and America...
1914: The Year the World Ended

1914: The Year the World Ended

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Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have...
Grimm Tales: For Young and Old

Grimm Tales: For Young and Old

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Author: Philip Pullman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition In this stunningly...
12 Edmondstone Street

12 Edmondstone Street

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Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Author: Edward Gibbon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1232 Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent...
Fart and Burp are Superstinkers

Fart and Burp are Superstinkers

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Author: Zoe Foster Blake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Zoe Foster Blake's beloved character Fart is back. Together with his new friend Burp, they're off on an adventure to...
The History of the Siege of Lisbon

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

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Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention What happens when the...
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

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Author: Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the...
Give Peas A Chance

Give Peas A Chance

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Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Surprise your mum with a chainsaw, be a bigger star than Tom Cruise, save the world with a plate...
The Long Haul: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK9)

The Long Haul: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK9)

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Author: Jeff Kinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Diary of Wimpy Kid series of books, by best-selling author Jeff Kinney, charts the highs and lows of...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In...
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce

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Author: Michael Newton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive collection of tales of the supernatural, edited by Michael Newton 'The ghost is the most enduring figure...
Annals

Annals

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Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 This edition also contains a chronology, maps, a genealogy, suggested further reading and notes. A compelling new translation of Tacitus'...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Rabindranath Tagore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,...
The Descent of Man

The Descent of Man

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Author: Grayson Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny,...
A Difficult Young Man

A Difficult Young Man

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Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Sonya Hartnett Winner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1956 Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen...
The Discourses

The Discourses

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Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics. Few figures...
Aristotle's Nostril

Aristotle's Nostril

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Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Aristotle just wants to be happy. And, if possible, have the biggest adventure of his life. With no sneezing....
A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics

A Dutiful Daughter: Text Classics

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Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

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Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business...
Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse

Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse

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Author: Gregory Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Gregory Smith was homeless for much of his adult life and lived for many years as a recluse in...
Enduring Love

Enduring Love

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, Enduring Love is a tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: Andrew Marvell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of...
The Garden Party and Other Stories

The Garden Party and Other Stories

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Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...
Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful,...
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion

Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion

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Author: Peter Heather Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians...
In the Land of Pain

In the Land of Pain

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Author: Alphonse Daudet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Daudet's fascinating notebook, revived and translated by Julian Barnes. Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose...
Wicked Fox

Wicked Fox

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Author: Kat Cho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. An addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a...
What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

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Author: Nina Power Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A philosopher asks, what exactly do men get out of being men in the 21st century? It would be easy to...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages...
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

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Author: Seth Godin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A revolutionary New York Times bestselling manifesto for marketers from the internationally renowned author of Permission Marketing. You're either...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

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Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...
The Secret Pilgrim: The Smiley Collection

The Secret Pilgrim: The Smiley Collection

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Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

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Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising...
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

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Author: Heinrich Boll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 An unforgettable novel that shows how easily a life can be ruined when the police and the media are...
Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

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Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...
A Doll's House and Other Plays

A Doll's House and Other Plays

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Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best...
Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby

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Author: Eleanor Atkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The beloved Scottish classic, first published in 1912, of a devoted little dog and his master. The famous classic...
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.

The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.

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Author: David Levithan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The wonderful debut middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author David Levithan Aidan disappeared for six days. Six...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

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Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...
Johnno

Johnno

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Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers,...