The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A 50th anniversary edition of the book that brought down the Soviet Union - now with an introduction from Solzhenitsyn's widow detailing the dramatic story of its publication ' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ...Show more
The Mountain Lion (Faber Editions) by Jean Stafford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Eight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league with each other against the stodgy and stupid routines of school and daily life; against their prim mother and prissy older sisters; against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself. One summer they are sent f ...Show more
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Crime & Espionage Classics) by Raymond Chandler
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip MarloweRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colour ...Show more
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
$24.99 AUD
Category: Penguin
Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece 'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall' Martim, believing that he has committed a murde ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime & Espionage Classics) by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Penguin
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishmentGeorge Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lampl ...Show more
Voices In The Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
In this elegant novel, a young unmarried woman conveys the tragedies, loves, and social entanglements of a village at the time of fascism, war and postwar urbanization.
Closer by Dennis Cooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Brothers Grimm
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales. A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of some of the world's most beloved stories. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and f ...Show more
Stories of Southern Italy by Ella Carr (Editor); Elena Ferrante (Contribution by); Elsa Morante (Contribution by); Ovid (Contribution by); Virgil (Contribution by); Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Contribution by); Somerset Maugham (Contribution by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea monsters, while in an excerpt from The Smile of the ...Show more
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From world-renowned and critically-acclaimed cartoonist Seth, comes this legendary ghost story - complete with brand-new spooky illustrations, this short story is the perfect seasonal gift! A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth. Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on ...Show more