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COLLECTED STORIES by BOWEN ELIZABETH
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affir ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
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Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
Calm by Tim Parks
$7.99 AUD
Category: CLA | Series: Vintage Minis
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to something approaching inner peace and tac ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposit ...Show more
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
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Category: General | Series: Vintage Classics
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be ...Show more
Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers by Joseph Heller
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America ...Show more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name ...Show more
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage classics
Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, this memoir is about the authors childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. It also depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distan ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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Category: CLA | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured and full of incoherent ambition, Edwin's hopes and dreams for the future are just taking shape, even as they are put to the t ...Show more
Coasting: A Private Journey by Jonathan Raban
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage which coincided with the ...Show more
Collected Stories Of Tenessee Williams by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics
"Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams' tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart". ("New York Times"). Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published fo ...Show more