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The Harp in the South Trilogy by Ruth Park
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing the saga of the Darcy family over thirty years. The story has its beginnings in ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$23.00 AUD
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
$27.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing tr ...Show more
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The IPCRESS File (#1) by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinist ...Show more
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary' Doris Lessing'I'm surprised it isn't the most famous book in the world' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers'She was close to the edge now: the ice laid its ...Show more
The Island by Ana María Matute; Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds' Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of ...Show more
The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Mariann ...Show more
The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell
$18.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and the silly'This is the most powerful portrait of England - and why it must change - ever written. Composed as bombs were falling over London at the height of the blitz, it remains ...Show more
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequ ...Show more
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Well known for coining the term 'Global Village', Marshall McLuhan's thinking was, and still is, revolutionary. His theories, many of which are illustrated in this astonishing 'inventory of effects', force us to question how modes of communication have shaped society. This is an astonishing work by a tr ...Show more
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
$23.00 AUD
Category: 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