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Austerity (Vintage Minis) by Yanis Varoufakis
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for ...Show more
Babies: Vintage Minis by Anne Enright
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Babies- our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the l ...Show more
Bee Journal (The Birds and the Bees) by Sean Borodale
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser.
The Birds and the Beesseries was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural worldBee Journalis a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive. It observes the living architecture of the comb, the range and l ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Vintage War | Reading Level: very good
WWI Centenary EditionWith a new introduction from the authorA novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily ...Show more
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in "Brave New World Revisited", Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argue ...Show more
Camera Lucida - Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 by Joseph Heller
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Russians Series
TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, immured in poverty and deprivation, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective, and a feverish cat-and-mous ...Show more
Crow Country A Meditation on Birds, Landscape and Nature by Mark Cocker
$24.99 AUD
Category: NON FICTION | Series: Vintage Classic Birds and Bees Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties, the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural world. One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to ...Show more