Your Cart
The Razor's Edge
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am...
Fairy Tales, 200th Anniversary Edition - Penguin Hardback Classic
A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally...
Tico and the Golden Wings
Tico, a little bird born without wings, is one day granted his dearest wish. But the wings he gets are made of gold and his bird friends turn against him. "You think you are better than we are," they say. What Tico does with his golden feathers--and the important lesson he learns--is a fable that childr...
Elements of Wit: Mastering the Art of Being Interesting
This engaging book brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone - intr...
Wilderness Fairies 5: Daisy's Gift
Daisy has found her Calling and her training is about to begin...But there's just so much to learn before Daisy will be allowed anywhere near a human. When her well-meaning curiosity leads her astray, Daisy finds herself in grave danger that could separate her from the Wilderness forever. WILDERNESS FAI...
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stor...
I Capture the Castle
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but...
The Carpet People
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet...Now, the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and a new story: the story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet; the story of power-hungry mouls -- and of two Munrung brothers who set out...
Strange Stars - David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when the sci-fi world met the rock 'n' roll world of the 1970sAs the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrat...
More Than I Love My Life
The heartbreaking family epic from the Booker International Prize-winning author An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the nine...
Total excl. delivery 257.91 AUD