The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
$29.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Written in two parts - in the first, an 18th century Korean Queen tells the story of a difficult marriage to the violent Crown Prince. Her ghost narrates the story 200 years later. The second half deals with an academic on a conference who has an affair - and the similarities the women share.
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Candida Wilton arrives in London ? alone, divorced and without much money. Yet she is filled with a strange excitement ? what might happen to her now in her final years? Prepared to fill her empty life with little events and pleasures ? trips to a gym, visits to her reading group ? she finds her horizon ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$24.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In 1912, a child in a Yorkshire mining town studies for the Cambridge entrance exam so she can escape to another life. Decades later Faro, her granddaughter, returns. Faro?s father was the son of refugees who fled European unrest. But for all her exotic ancestry and glamour, has she travelled any furthe ...Show more
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
$25.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The Bawtry family has been in South Yorkshire for generations when Bessie is born just before the turn of the last century. The Bawtrys have been content with their humble lot, but Bessie longs for the freedom promised by a new beginning. However, when she succeeds in being admitted to Cambridge and asc ...Show more
The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$16.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost world holds great danger for the men, from both fiendish ape-men and terrifying prehistoric creatures.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$12.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of iniquity . . . The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at ...Show more
Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. "Poor Folk", the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship betwee ...Show more
The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Gift Editions Ser.
The civil servant Ivan Matveyich and his wife Elena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition – in a shopping arcade – of a crocodile owned by a German, when Ivan is suddenly swallowed alive by the animal. Unsuccessful in his attempts to be freed from his prison, due to the German’s concern for his croco ...Show more