A Year in Provence: Popular Penguins by Peter Mayle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins
Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters w ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literature
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Vintage Classics by Harper Lee
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Classics
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbidd ...Show more
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
100 Novels That Changed the World by Colin Salter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literature
The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times - Homer's Iliad ...Show more
Shakespeare for Everyone: Discover the History, Comedy and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Roberts
$34.99 AUD
Category: Literature
Travel back 400 years to visit rowdy theatres and royal palaces to understand what it was like to live in Shakespeare's Elizabethan England and the influence it had on his ground-breaking work. This book charts Shakespeare's phenomenal talent and peeks behind the curtain at his most famous plays, from t ...Show more
For the Love of Books: A Book Lover's Guide for Those Who Don't Much Like to Read by Françoize Boucher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature
We all know someone who doesn't like to read. Try as we might, it can be impossible convincing them of the joys of a good book. Filled with completely ridiculous tips and totally bonkers advice, this book somehow makes perfect sense. The illustrated collection of dozens of good (and some not-so-good) re ...Show more
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Louise; Wilder Willder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature
A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan, Spectator A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bi ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
$21.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more
Twenty-First Century Tolkien - What Middle-Earth Means to Us Today by Nick Groom
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature
An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before.