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The Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell 'A near-perfect novel' Hanya Yanagihara In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and eac ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Ficton | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Diana Lewis Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translators)
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a ...Show more
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Mikhail Bulgakov
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplices, ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
$22.00 AUD
Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: good
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
The Running Sky (The Birds and the Bees): A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. Beginning in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England, Tim Dee m ...Show more
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them ...Show more
The Velveteen Rabbit Touch-And-Feel Board Book: The Classic Edition by Charles Santore (Illustrator); Margery Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Board Books | Series: The\Classic Edition Ser.
The beloved story of how toys become real, now as a touch-and-feel, lift-the-flap book for kids of all ages The beloved story of how toys become real, now as a touch-and-feel, lift-the-flap book for kids of all ages Charles Santore's beautiful, best-selling illustrations capture the spirit of this c ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague ...Show more
Velveteen Rabbit Plush Gift Set: The Classic Edition Board Book + Plush Stuffed Animal Toy Rabbit Gift Set by WILLIAMS, MARGERY
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\Classic Edition Ser.
Margery Williams Binaco's best-known children story is now available as a boxed set that includes a lovable, huggable Velveteen Rabbit plush. Charles Santore's beautiful, best-selling illustrations capture the spirit of these classic books, making the stories leap off the page. Great for Easter baskets ...Show more