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Moral Hazard: Text Classics
Author: Kate Jennings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Introduced by Gideon Haigh I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I...
The Long Prospect
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an...
The Catherine Wheel
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 340 The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch.........
The Watch Tower
Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Joan London Winner, Patrick White Award 1996 Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently...
Dark Places: Text Classics
Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introduced by Louise Adler Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 1995 This is Albion...
The Children's Bach
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...
Wake In Fright
Author: Kenneth Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Introduced byPeter Temple The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood...
Slow Man
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern...
Life & Times of Michael K
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...
The Childhood of Jesus
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable...
Summertime
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Summertime is a modern classic...
Foe
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles -...
All The Green Year
Author: Don Charlwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I...
The Cardboard Crown
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 266 Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of...
A Difficult Young Man
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...
Outbreak Of Love
Author: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 322 Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of...
Hot Milk
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author...
Our Kind of Traitor
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre...
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new...
Of Love and Other Demons
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works...
The General in His Labyrinth
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine if...
Kiss Kiss
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable, Roald Dahl. What could go wrong when a wife...
If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING
Author: Frances Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South Korea If...
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' If I didn't define myself for...
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro...
How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)
Author: Kathy Lette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From the author of the bestselling HRT and Puberty Blues. All women want to kill their husbands some of...
The Tailor of Panama
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The latest title from the bestselling author John le Carre to come into Penguin Modern Classics Harry Pendel...
Visions of Gerard
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 One of the final works in Kerouac's 13-book Proustian memoir to join the Penguin Modern Classics. Unique among Jack...
Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a...
Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellison's superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, Invisible...
Only the Animals
Author: Ceridwen Dovey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An animal's-eye view of humans at our brutal worst and our creative best, Only the Animals asks us to...
Nostalgia
Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...
Jack Maggs
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The...
The Tax Inspector
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since...
The Chemistry of Tears
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and...
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Peter Carey hilariously conjures up dystopia in his picaresque The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. Severely afflicted, doomed never...
His Illegal Self
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Peter Carey is at his inventive, brilliant best in His Illegal Self, a novel about a family who, once...
Amnesia
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In Amnesia Peter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy...
A Long Way from Home
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Australia's master novelist takes us on the race of a lifetime. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is...
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three...
True History of the Kelly Gang
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...
Bliss
Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Peter Carey's first novel and first Miles Franklin winner, Bliss remains a work ahead of its time. It takes...
The First Man
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...
Italian Folktales
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
The Cedar Tree
Author: Nicole Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a...
The Other Side of the Story
Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction. 'There are three sides to every story. Your side, their...
Tell No Lies
Author: Gregg Hurwitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Daniel Brasher is leaving behind his job as a probation counsellor working with hardened criminals to spend more time...