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Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, ex... Buy or find out more 


The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture – now we... Buy or find out more 



A Spy In The House Of Love
Anais Nin

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Weaving a sensual web of deceit as she plays dangerous games of desire, she deliberately... Buy or find out more 


Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In America at the turn of the twentieth century, when society abounds with movers and shakers such as Houdini, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford and Emma Goldman, and the sultry rhythms of ragtime permeate the city, ex-chorus girl ... Buy or find out more 



The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince is his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leader... Buy or find out more 


The Pearl
John Steinbeck

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his ... Buy or find out more 



A Passage To India
E.M. Forster

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

After a mysterious incident during their visit to the Marabar Caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naïve young Englishwoman. His trial exposes the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relati... Buy or find out more 


Out Of Africa
Isak Dinesen

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn to the exquisite beauty of Africa, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. A poignant farewell to her beloved far... Buy or find out more 



Orlando
Virginia Woolf

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern wo... Buy or find out more 


Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to appease the needs of the Party. Inwardly, he rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands abso... Buy or find out more 



Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself and the universe, and cover diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality and the... Buy or find out more 


Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read... Buy or find out more 



A Kestrel For A Knave
Barry Hines

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

This is a powerful story of survival in a tough, joyless world. Billy Casper is a troubled teenager growing up in a Yorkshire mining town. Beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school, he se... Buy or find out more 


I, Claudius
Robert Graves

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. He watches and records the activities of the wise ... Buy or find out more 



The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. He hunts for them, collects them, sells them, occasionally fakes them – all to give the people what they want – a little piece of Fame. An existential tour around the hollow things of mod... Buy or find out more 


The Accidental
Ali Smith

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is interrupted by a beguiling stranger called Amber. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to... Buy or find out more 



April Fool's Day
Bryce Courtenay

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool's Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man's life. Damon's story is one of lifelong struggle, his love for Celeste, ... Buy or find out more 


Boy
Roald Dahl

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Boy is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood, including tales of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot – the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in years to come. These... Buy or find out more 



Day Of The Triffids
John Wyndham

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, ... Buy or find out more 


Another Country
James Baldwin

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

This masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohe... Buy or find out more 



The Eye In The Door
Pat Barker

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

London, 1918. Billy Prior works for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men, pacifists, objectors and homosexuals conflict with his duties as a soldier, and before long hi... Buy or find out more 


Falconer
John Cheever

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Ezekiel Farragut, a college professor and heroin addict, is sent to Falconer Correctional Facility after murdering his brother. Enclosed in a filthy cell, witness to the routine savagery of the guards and his fellow pris... Buy or find out more 



The Fight
Norman Mailer

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

In Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974, Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's famous tactical use of silence, serenity and raw cunning made him the undefeated reigning World Heavyweight Champion. For Ali, the challeng... Buy or find out more 


Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find. On his journey he encounters the darkness of the wilderness; the darknes... Buy or find out more 



The High Window
Raymond Chandler

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doub... Buy or find out more 


The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul Theroux

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

From London across Europe through India and Asia, this was a trip of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the places, peoples, food, faiths and cultures of the East. To visit the lands... Buy or find out more 



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