I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most gorgeous, funny and heartbreaking novels ever written.'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up.Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbli ...Show more
Trainspotting (Vintage Classics) by Irvine Welsh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-num ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, ...Show more
Frankenstein Dreams A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction by Michael Sims
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Connoisseur's Collections
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest. Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The g ...Show more
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostit ...Show more
Last Comes the Raven by Italo Calvino; Archibald Colquhoun (Translator); Ann Goldstein (Translator); Ben Johnson (Translator); William Weaver (Translator); Peggy Wright (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside, telling tales both sumptuous and unnerving. Calvino's war-torn Italy is vivid, intense, almost hyper-real. A trio of greedy burglars rob a pastry shop, a boy offers a girl presents of toads and insects from the garden ...Show more
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales by Various
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to ven ...Show more
Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
At long last she was playing the role she had always dreamt about, that of a mother, full of anxious solicitude, preparing to confide her daughter into the hands of a young man with good intentions, good prospects and a good character. A domineering mother moves from a small town to the suburbs of a cit ...Show more
Where All Good Flappers Go - Essential Stories of the Jazz Age by David M. Earle (Editor); F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Zelda Fitzgerald (Contribution by); Anita Loos (Contribution by); Dorothy Parker (Contribution by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
"I believe in the flapper as an artist in her particular field, the art of being - being young, being lovely." -- Zelda Fitzgerald A sparkling new collection of "flapper fiction" stories featuring the iconic women who defined the Jazz Age Edited and introduced by David M. Earle Vivacious, ch ...Show more
Valentino by Natalia Ginzburg
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
So there is no one to whom I can speak the words that most need to be spoken, about the events which most closely concern our family and what has happened to us; I have to keep them bottled up inside me and there are times when they threaten to choke me. Valentino is the spoiled child of doting parents ...Show more
Jazz by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: Adult
Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a k ...Show more
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Bluebeard, published in 1987, is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster. Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of ...Show more