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Spy Sinker by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A new narrator provides some long-awaited answers to the Bernard Samson mystery in the final novel of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy Of all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman of secrets, she will risk everything to ...Show more
Spy Story by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A classic Cold War thriller featuring computer hacking, nuclear submarines and violence on the Arctic iceComputer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong - possibly the same reluctant hero of ...Show more
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Georges Bataille's first novel is widely regarded as the erotic masterpiece of the 20th century. It appears here together with two essays: Susan Sontag's study of the literature of sex, "The Pornographic Imagination", and Roland Barthes's critical essay on the text, "The Metaphor of the Eye'.
Styles Of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics "The Aesthetics of Silence", a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and "Trip to Hanoi", written during the Vietnam War. Here too is an excoriating acco ...Show more
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The story of a young English aristocrat, who - cut adrift by tragedy - is led by her husband's former mistress deep into the fervour, chaos and blood of the French revolution. Summer Will Show is a fearless and wildly entertaining tale of loss and daring self-discovery.
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad.
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness. Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with her apron-strings, and tried not to feel ...Show more
Tales from 1,001 Nights by Ursula Lyons (Translator); Robert Irwin (Introduction by); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator); Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar s ...Show more
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
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Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For bet ...Show more
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ten Days That Shook the World Author: John Reed Covers the October Revolution in Russia 1917, which Reed experienced first-hand, and follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Zinoviev and Karl Radek. Banned by Stalin. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensi ...Show more