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The Little Hotel (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
People live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors. After the Second World War, bizarre char ...Show more
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
$32.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The ...Show more
The Matrix by Joshua Clover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters and produced by Joel Silver, was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the American zeitgeist, and, as the original film in a blockbusting franchise, a prognosis for the future of big-budget Hollywood film-making. Starring Keanu Reeves a ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily TelegraphIt all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamw ...Show more
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Usborne Modern Classics Ser.
When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever. Her father retreats into his work trasmitting telegrams, abdoning Comity when she needs him most. Then a new assistant arrives who delights in playing cruel games. Soon Comity struggles to hold things toget ...Show more
The Miracle Of Mindfulness: The Classic Guide to Meditation by the World's Most Revered Master by Thich Nhat Hanh
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Rider Classics Ser.
'The monk who taught the world mindfulness' TimeThis is the definitive book on mindfulness from the beloved Zen master and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh. With his signature clarity and warmth, he shares practical exercises and anecdotes to help us arrive at greater self-understanding and pea ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Monk is remembered for being one of the more lurid and "transgressive" of Gothic novels. It is also the first book to feature a priest as the villain. The story concerns Ambrosio - a pious, well-respected monk in Spain - and his violent downfall. We are delighted to publish ...Show more
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back to the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Spending the summer wandering its valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel obsessively returns in memory to the farm where he worked as an adolescent ...Show more
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else." The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guervara
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sports | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycleAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcyc ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife's death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody s ...Show more