Watership Down by Richard Adams
19.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: A\Puffin Book Ser.
'Fiver and I will be leaving the warren tonight . . . I don't know exactly where we shall go, but we'll take anyone who's ready to come with us.' Fiver was only a young rabbit, but he has a sixth sense and foresaw that disaster was about to destroy the warren. Few believed him. Led by his brother Hazel, ...Show more
Lord of the Flies: New Educational Edition by William Golding
22.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Reading Level: very good
Lord of the Flies is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children. It is not only a gripping story, with strong, sympathetic characters, but it also raises timeless and profound que ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
24.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
Cosi (Play) by Louis Nowra
22.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Current Theatre
Lewis arrives fresh from university to direct a play at a mental institution. Roy demands Cosi Fan Tutte. An affectionate look at madness and mayhem (3 acts, 5 men, 3 women).
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
14.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
14.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
Eva Luna: Popular Penguins by Isabel Allende
12.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love, during a time of political unrest in South America. Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother is a servan ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces: Popular Penguins by John Kennedy Toole
14.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Meet Ignatius J. Reilly: flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has ...Show more
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
14.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Used successfully by thousands of business managers, educators, and government leaders around the world, Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success in business depends on how you think. "The main difficulty of thinking is ...Show more
Pirate Rain - New Poems by MAIDEN Jennifer
24.00 AUD
Category: CLASSICS
Pirate Rain explores arbitrary power, as delivered by piratical, natural and human forces. Greed and ambition cause disasters in the poems, in complex sequences - featuring Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the return of George Jefferys and Clare. It interweaves political poems with a more pers ...Show more
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (HB) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
56.58 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together wit ...Show more
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
24.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS
Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts (no survivors) her heart is broken. But her charms draw the attention of the rel ...Show more