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Frogs and Other Plays
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an i...
First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome Series: Book 1)
The first book in the epic Masters of Rome series. Rome. 110BC. A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by powerty, a ...
Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion
Three works of fiction from Ancient Greece, with an introduction by Helen MoralesIn this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, wh...
The Ellis Laws: Penguin Special
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough...
Berserk Volume 20
The Black Swordsman Guts' former captain and lover, Casca, has been taken by the Holy Iron Chain Knights to the Tower of Conviction of the fanatic torturer of the Holy See, Mozgus, who plans to treat the rumored witch to the proper agonies of the damned, but Guts is on his way to rescue Casca and dish o...
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Twelfth Night, Or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, based on the short story "Of Apolonius and Silla" by Barnabe Rich. It is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601 and first published in the First Folio ...
A Cup of Rage
'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'. A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm in the Brazilian outback - spend the night together. The next day they proceed to destroy each other. Amid vitriolic insults, cruelty and warring egos, their sexual adventure tu...
One Of Us Is Lying
On Thursday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher...
The Penguin Book Of Hell
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century v...
Edens Zero (#6)
It's here The creator of Fairy Tail, manga superstar Hiro Mashima, is back with a high-flying space adventure All the steadfast friendship, crazy fighting, and blue cats you've come to expect... IN SPACE THE TIME ORACLE With Hermit back on the EDENS ZERO, Shiki and his crew only have to find Va...
On the Plain of Snakes - A Mexican Road Trip
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TRAVEL WRITING 2020 The master of contemporary travel writing, Paul Theroux, immerses himself in the beautiful and troubled heart of modern Mexico Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A forty-...
Bad Island
'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read i...
RecipeTin Eats: Dinner: 150 recipes from Australia’s most popular cook
Through her phenomenally popular online food site, RecipeTin Eats, Nagi Maehashi talks to millions of people a year who tell her about the food they love. Now, in her first cookbook, Nagi brings us the ultimate curation of new and favourite RecipeTin Eats recipes - from comfort food (yes, cheese galor...
Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan Vol. 6
THE WONDER CAT AND HIS WONDER DAD ARE BACK IN THIS ENCHANTING SIXTH VOLUME!Our latest installment finds Kyuu-chan caring for a lost bird, sledding with Mona-chan, and making a cake (in secret!) for Hinata's birthday! If Kyuu-pid's arrow hasn't already struck your heart, then you owe it to yourself to di...
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...
Fourth Wing: The Empyrean Bk 1
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book "Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy." --Booklist, starred review "Fourth Wing will have your heart poundin...
Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye...
Finding My Bella Vita: A story of family, food, fame and working out who you are
For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi. But playing Josie is only one small part of everything that has shaped the woman Pia has become. As a child, her Nonna would tell her stories ...
Reptiles Deluxe series
Packed with sumptuous photography, this is one of the first titles in the new and lavish ‘Deluxe’ natural history series from Reed New Holland. The images celebrate the beauty and marvellous design of some of our most misunderstood animals, the reptiles. They share a magnificence and elegance that we ar...
The Actor
The glamour of Hollywood and the dark secrets that lie behind it- a brilliantly written and irresistibly suspenseful novel, from an author who knows all about the world he's writing about At long last, Adam Sealey has an Oscar within reach. Working with his controversial former mentor, Jonathan, he's g...
Nightwing - The Leap
Tom Taylor; Bruno Redondo (Illustrator); Eduardo Pansica (Illustrator)
The fourth volume in the thrilling Nightwing epic is here! Eisner Award Winner 2023 - Best Continuing Series Collecting the exciting tales from Nightwing's adventures, this volume includes Nightwing #98-100 and Nightwing 2022 Annual--these include an appearance from Nite-Mite--that's right, that...
Dickens and Prince - A Particular Kind of Genius
When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the album came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original. In awe, Nick Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years ...
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