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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party i ...Show more
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
$27.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road wit ...Show more
By Grand Central Station I Sat down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George ...Show more
Collins Modern Classics by Judith Kerr; Norton Juster
$32.95 AUD
Category: 8-12 Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. 'Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almo ...Show more
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions ...Show more
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom wi ...Show more
Shakespeare - The World As a Stage by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright.Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. His fame stems not o ...Show more
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France. In December 1995, Jean-Domini ...Show more
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, ...Show more
The Golden Notebook (Collins Modern Classics) by Doris Lessing
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young ch ...Show more
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri.'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's ...Show more