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Pensees
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo...
Kiss Kiss: Short Stories (Adult)
What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? What happens when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain? Can a wronged woman take revenge on her dead husband? In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister ...
Mistletoe and Murder
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful libraries and inviting tea-rooms - but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College. Two days before Christmas, a brutal accident takes place - but the Detect...
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its histo...
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)
A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens an...
Tales from 1,001 Nights
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar s...
The League of Gentlewomen Witches (#2 Dangerous Damsels)
Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands.Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first.Demanding the help of rakis...
Rise and Fall of Athens
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu...
$10 Meals with Chelsea: Weekly meal plans . Tasty dinner recipes . Average $2.50 per serve
Revolutionise Your Kitchen. Home cook Chelsea Goodwin, creator of budget cookery platform $10 Meals Australia, wants to make your life a whole lot easier - and cheaper. She's taken the stress out of getting good food on the table by curating ten weeks' worth of dinner meal plans with their recipes and g...
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