Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
'The hideous, then unfamiliar shriek of the air-raid sirens sang out over London.' Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever, in this hilarious and deadly serious 1942 satire on the 'phoney war'.
Crescendo by Amy Weiss
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: General Adult
An inspirational tale of a love across lifetimes Til death do us part, Aria and her husband swore. But death came much too soon. When tragedy strikes one summer night, everything is taken from Aria: her family, her future. Desperate to find meaning in life after loss, she and her beloved mare leave thei ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : Little Black Classic by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'. Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Littl ...Show more
Let's Talk About Love Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste 33 1/3 by Carl Wilson
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampoone ...Show more
Love: Vintage Minis by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for t ...Show more
Flush : Little Black Classic by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
For readers that like that feeling of contentment after reading a really good book. The author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry returns with a witty, moving novel about what it means to be a woman - especially in the Google age where no secret is safe for long. Aviva Grossm ...Show more
The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
$26.99 AUD
Category: General
AJ Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life Maya is the baby who ends up on AJ's bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the book ...Show more
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak; Max Hayward (TRN) Manya Harari (TRN)
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Promo | Reading Level: very good
On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing...Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician an ...Show more
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Gift Edition) by Beatrix Potter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Beatrix Potter's work reflects her interest in animals, natural history and the environment. She liked to imagine her characters in her favourite, natural places, so she created a special world for Peter Rabbit.Before the full-colour edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published by Frederick Warne & ...Show more