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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the Road, he needed to 'get away to solitude again or die', so he withdrew to a cabin in Big Sur on the Californian coast. The resulting novel, in which his autobiographical hero Jac ...Show more
Billion-Dollar Brain (#4 IPCRESS) by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final spy novel featuring the unnamed hero of The IPCRESS File series finds him up against a Texan billionaire with an all-powerful computerTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
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Category: Military History/Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Bomber by Deighton Len
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating nove ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
$22.95 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs. Also includes: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more
Call for the Dead by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. John le Carr 's latest novel, A Legacy of Spies, is now available. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on you ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
Chess: A Novel by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At f ...Show more
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilo ...Show more