The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Clothbound Classic) by Mark Twain
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresq ...Show more
My Daughter's Wedding by Gretel Killeen
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Fiction
Nora Fawn's daughter, Hope, disappeared four years ago. Nora has never known why. Refusing to answer her mother's calls, emails or texts, Hope maintained contact only with her big sister, Joy. Having once considered her mothering to be the greatest achievement of her life, Nora's spent these Hope-less y ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: a Novel (Illustrated Edition) by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Adam Simpson (Illustrator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Great American novel.Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It ...Show more
Microscripts by Robert Walser & Maira Kalman
$40.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper, covered with tiny ant-like pencil markings a millimeter high, came to light only after the author's death in 1956.At first considered random restless pencil markings or a secret code, the ...Show more
The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of the many aged-elderly in Japan and he might, he thinks, live forever. Life for Yoshiro isn't as simple as it used to be. Pollution and natural disas ...Show more
Hour Of The Star by Clarice Lispector
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monro ...Show more
Astragal by Albertine Sarrazin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 9 ...Show more
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber by Allen Ginsberg
$2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, GarcYa Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A virtuoso balletic pas de deux of memory and imagination... There is something reminiscent in the fictional young Vila-Matas of Woody Allen... Not only does this novel glitter with sharp ideas and observations, it may just be the best book I've ever read about Paris." TLS "Utterly compelling...breatht ...Show more
The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's 1699, and the salons of Paris are bursting with the creative energy of fierce, independent-minded women. But outside those doors, the patriarchal forces of Louis XIV and the Catholic Church are moving to curb their freedoms. In this battle for equality, Baroness Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy invents a p ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in the late 1990s and a bestseller at the time, this incisive collection of short stories explores connection and disconnection in families, between ex-lovers and friends. From a father reflecting on the daughter whose lesbianism he cannot accept, to two people who were once young togeth ...Show more