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A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Tess Newall; Alex Goodwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The ultimate and timeless Christmas story, with cuddly guinea pigs in the starring roles Miserable to the core and wholly unwilling to extend a paw to help those in desperate need, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge says "bah, Humbug " to the festive season. But one night he is visited by three Christmas Sp ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Night Before Christmas by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
The latest heart-warming book in the Guinea Pig Classics series.''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse' But sit down by the fire with some chocolates to hand, And you'll be welcomed into a magical land. There is snow and some moon ...Show more
A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist by Alex Goodwin
$16.99 AUD
Category: Gift & Humour | Series: Guinea Pig Classics Ser.
Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens's most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs. In the misery of a workhouse, a poor, fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed on nothing but thin air and even thinner gruel. By squeaking a fateful question - ...Show more
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
With an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the ...Show more
A Little Princess (Word Cloud Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
Captain Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army. Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England. ...Show more
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, J.L. Carr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Penelope Fitzgerald - Introduction Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 112 pages | ISBN 014118230X | May 2000 A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beau ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
$22.99 AUD
Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fab ...Show more
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. ' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unkown writer living in Paris in the 1920's are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
$24.99 AUD
Category: Spies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: "I'm not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me." But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant mas ...Show more
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
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Category: Thriller | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unrelia ...Show more
A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
An extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titl ...Show more
A Pure Clear Light: Text Classics by Madeleine St John
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project...what could go wrong? A Pure Clear Lightexamines a marriage at the moment it goes hapless ...Show more