The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sunencompasses forty years of incisive and moving reportage about Africa by one of the world's greatest journalists. From newly independent Ghana to war-torn Rwanda, Kapuscinski captures the sights, sounds, smells and, above all, the real lives of this vast contin ...Show more
In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Night falls. In a lonely valley called the Sink, four people prepare for a quiet evening. Then in his orchard, Murray Jacob sees a moving shadow. Across the swamp, his neighbour Ronnie watches her lover leave and feels her baby roll inside her. And on the verandah of the Stubbs's house, a small dog is t ...Show more
Robinson Crusoe HB (Illus. by Robert Ingpen) by Daniel Defoe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling to survive on a remote desert island. This Penguin Classics is edited with an introduction and notes by John Richetti. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is wa ...Show more
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 by Richard Brautigan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons
When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his ...Show more
The Magician's Nephew (Vol 1 The Chronicles of Narnia) HB by C. S. Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Chronicles of Narnia | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
A beautiful hardback edition of The Magician's Nephew, book one in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mark Twain
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures al ...Show more
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens when a child loves you. More than anything else, the Velveteen Rabbit wants to become real just like the wild rabbits he's seen in the woods. But can the Boy help make the Rabbit's wish come true? First published in 1922, the classic children's stor ...Show more
Terra Australis: Text Classics by Matthew Flinders
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery, Terra Australis is a vital step toward a new understanding of our own history. Flinders tells of meeting and com ...Show more
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The World of Beatrix Potter
THE TALE OF MR. JEREMY FISHERThe Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a children's book, written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. It was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in July 1906. Jeremy's origin lies in a letter she wrote to a child in 1893. She revised it in 1906, and moved its setting from the Ri ...Show more
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
$15.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how their lives have changed since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them: "Make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society - a secret club where, free ...Show more
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, Billy Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons | Reading Level: very good
Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with ma ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Peter (AFT) James; Harness Joyce
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
James Joyce's first novel follows the life of Stephen Dedalus, an artistic and fiercely individual young man. Along the way, Stephen learns to negotiate the 'snares of the world', to avoid the pitfalls of his dysfunctional family, his terrifying and repressive boarding school, and the various beautiful ...Show more