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Drinking: Vintage Minis by John Cheever
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
What's the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to the suburban swimmer withering away with every plunge he takes, these are ...Show more
Eating: Vintage Minis by Nigella Lawson
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
In this inspiring, witty and eminently sensible book, Nigella Lawson sets out a manifesto for how to cook (and eat) good food every day with a minimum of fuss. From basic roast chicken and pea risotto to white truffles and Turkish Delight figs, Nigella brings the joy back into the kitchen. Selected fro ...Show more
Fatherhood: Vintage Minis by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
How to be a good father? Children?s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes- the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard?s compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tenderness towards his children with the ...Show more
Flight Attendant (TVTI) A Novel by Chris Bohjalian
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime / Adventure | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them-and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece th ...Show more
Freedom: Vintage Minis by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms t ...Show more
Friendship: Vintage Minis by Rose Tremain
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the novels of Rose Tremain. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Ghosts: M.R. James by M. R. James
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. ...Show more
Gigi by Colette
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, l ...Show more
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
$14.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindLife on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming.Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior ...Show more
Home: Vintage Minis by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of m ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more