William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrati by William Blake
$42.95 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions | Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
Commissioned in 1824 - just three years before his death - Blake's sublime watercolors are not only peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, they are dramatic expressions of the great artist's integrity and imagination. Some apocalyptic, others angelic, the 102 plates r ...Show more
Fables of Aesop - Calla Edition by Edward J. Detmold
$56.95 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
The Penguin Book Of Hell by Scott G. Bruce
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 ...Show more
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
As new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a spell that attracts a fervent following. He reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Cat ...Show more
The Lord Of The Rings [Illustrated Edition, HB] by J R R Tolkien
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
For the first time ever, a very special edition of the classic masterpiece, with the complete text and illustrated throughout by the author himself. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sw ...Show more
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisherA man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage to meet the kin ...Show more
Star Mother - A Novel by Charlie N. Holmberg
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Star Mother Ser.
A woman's heart proves as infinite as the night sky in a breathtaking fantasy by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg. When a star dies, a new one must be born. The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mo ...Show more
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti's debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of India on the lives of three generations of women. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children ta ...Show more
The Art of Illumination by A M Peter Hamilton
$42.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1097. Britain has been politically unstable for an age, and it doesn't seem as though things will be settling down any time soon. It isn't just political issues that threaten the population, however. Without an understanding of the nature of pestilence or the knowledge of how to treat it, di ...Show more
Speak, Bird, Speak Again - Palestinian Arab Folktales by Ibrahim Muhawi; Sharif Kanaana; Alan Dundes (Foreword by); Ibtisam Barakat (Foreword by)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native Palestinians, the authors are well suited to their task. Ove ...Show more