Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas (Editor); Susan Wyndham (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world. Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams and made occasi ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more
The Snow Woman and Other Yokai Stories from Japan by Noboru Wada
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An extraordinary collection of Japanese folk tales, many in English for the first time!This book contains 79 stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu, compiled and edited by award-winning author Noboru Wada. It features traditional tales of yokai, ghosts, mountain witches, demons and appa ...Show more
She played and sang: Jane Austen and music by Gillian Dooley
$45.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Jane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books of the Austen family, granting us a deeper understanding of the writer's artistic prowess and the influen ...Show more
Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A stunning facsimile of the 1932 edition of Twelfth Night illustrated by Eric Ravilious. Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited print run and no ...Show more
Kate Forsyth's Long-Lost Fairy Tales by Kate Forsyth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Fairy tales are as old as language itself. In this collection of long-lost fairy tales, author Kate Forsyth and illustrator Lorena Carrington work together to bring tales of wisdom, compassion, and courage to life for the modern-day reader. Long, long ago, storytellers all around the world told tales of ...Show more
The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Oprah Daily's Top 25 Fantasy Novels of 2022), this beautifully told Gothic fairy tale of ghosts, witches, deadly secrets and past sins, will be perfect for fans of Hannah Whitten and Ava Reid. Ellie Briar i ...Show more
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer, radical Chaucer and conservative Chaucer, among many other interpretatio ...Show more
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
$23.99 AUD
Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in ...Show more
The Frolic of the Beasts by Yukio Mishima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- a gripping novel about a love affair gone wrong Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a se ...Show more
George Orwell's Elephant and Other Essays - And Other Essays by Subhash Jaireth
$31.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes.His roving curiosity takes us from his early life in Delhi to his years as a student in Soviet-era Moscow. We travel to Burma with George O ...Show more
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales by Various
$35.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to ven ...Show more