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I Am Legend - The Best of the SF Masterworks (Paperback): Richard Matheson I Am Legend - The Best of the SF Masterworks (Paperback)
Richard Matheson
R306 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R58 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this? Winner of the Bram Stoker Prize for Vampire Novel of the Century, I Am Legend is a stunning blend of science fiction and horror. 'The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula' - Dean Koontz 'Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me' - Stephen King 'It is, by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting' - James Lovegrove Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction

Greenbanks (Paperback): Dorothy Whipple, Charles Lock Greenbanks (Paperback)
Dorothy Whipple, Charles Lock
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Best Stories of Arsene Lupin (Paperback): Maurice Leblanc The Best Stories of Arsene Lupin (Paperback)
Maurice Leblanc; Foreword by Matthew Carey Salyer
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on the popular Netflix series! In the early 20th century, esteemed writer Maurice Leblanc created Arsene Lupin, a French Sherlock Holmes-type who became known as the gentleman thief. Lupin's exploits, in pursuit of the rich, have been documented in more than twenty stories and books, as well as in film. In January 2021, Netflix released a major hit in the entertaining Lupin mystery-comedy series based on the stories. The Best Stories of Arsene Lupin is a collection of the most engaging of Leblanc's writing about Lupin, with a special foreword by West Point associate professor of English and writer Matthew Carey Salyer.

The Necronomicon - Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre (Hardcover): H. P Lovecraft, Arthur MacHen, Robert... The Necronomicon - Tales of Eldritch Horror from the Masters of the Genre (Hardcover)
H. P Lovecraft, Arthur MacHen, Robert Ervin Howard, Robert W Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn
R874 R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Save R120 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder (Paperback): Ngaio Marsh A Man Lay Dead / Enter a Murderer / The Nursing Home Murder (Paperback)
Ngaio Marsh
R536 R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Save R135 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. A MAN LAY DEAD Sir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis - so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the whodunit... ENTER A MURDERER The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends and several relieved blackmail victims. The stage is set for one of Roderick Alleyn's most baffling cases... THE NURSING HOME MURDER A Harley Street surgeon and his attractive nurse are almost too nervous to operate. Their patient is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good personal reasons to want him dead. The operation is a complete success - but he dies within hours, and Inspector Alleyn must find out why...

"Justine", "Philosophy in the Bedroom" and Other Writings (Paperback, 1st Evergreen ed): Sade "Justine", "Philosophy in the Bedroom" and Other Writings (Paperback, 1st Evergreen ed)
Sade
R625 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R76 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century--from Baudelaire and Swinburne to Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky and Kafka--is indisputable. This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugenie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine. This literary portrait of Sade is completed by one of his earliest philosophical efforts, Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man, a selection of his letters, a fifty-page chronology of his life, two important essays on Sade, and a bibliography of his work.

God Emperor of Dune (Paperback): Frank Herbert God Emperor of Dune (Paperback)
Frank Herbert
R511 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R114 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fall of Gondolin (Paperback): J. R. R. Tolkien The Fall of Gondolin (Paperback)
J. R. R. Tolkien; Illustrated by Alan Lee; Edited by Christopher Tolkien 1
R300 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R60 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar. Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Turin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and their son is Earendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child Earendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Earendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources. Following his presentation of Beren and Luthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin. In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was 'the first real story of this imaginary world' and, together with Beren and Luthien and The Children of Hurin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.

Laidlaw (Paperback, Main): William McIlvanney Laidlaw (Paperback, Main)
William McIlvanney
R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

THE FIRST IN THE ORIGINAL LAIDLAW TRILOGY. WINNER OF THE CWA SILVER DAGGER. THE DARK REMAINS, Laidlaw's first case, out 2 September 2021. PRE-ORDER NOW! 'If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it' Guardian 'A bloody good read' Val McDermid When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner demons but driven by a deep compassion for the violent criminals in Glasgow's underworld. But will Laidlaw's unorthodox methods get him to the killer in time, when the victim's father is baying for blood? Acclaimed for its corrosive wit, dark themes and original maverick detective, the Laidlaw trilogy has earned the status of classic crime fiction.

The Great Gatsby - The Graphic Novel (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby - The Graphic Novel (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald; Illustrated by Aya Morton; Fred Fordham
R560 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R89 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Gatsby (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald 2
R190 R152 Discovery Miles 1 520 Save R38 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything but one thing will always be out of his reach. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby young, handsome, fabulously rich always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret, a silent longing that can never be fulfilled and soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.

Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback): Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Meek One (Paperback, 44 Ed): Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Meek One (Paperback, 44 Ed)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Translated by Ronald Meyer
R78 Discovery Miles 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881). Dostoyevsky's works available in Penguin Classics are Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Double, The Gambler and Other Stories, The Grand Inquisitor, Notes From The Underground, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of The Dead, The Brothers Karamazov and The Village of Stepanchikovo.

The Odyssey (Hardcover): Homer The Odyssey (Hardcover)
Homer
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Walden (Paperback): Henry David Thoreau Walden (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau; Edited by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau's landmark meditation on the importance of solitude, reflection, and proximity to nature, is presented in this Norton Library edition alongside three of his most influential political essays: "Civil Disobedience," "Slavery in Massachusetts," and "A Plea for Captain John Brown." An introduction by Jedediah Britton-Purdy reacquaints Thoreau to the contemporary reader a nuanced account of Thoreau's historical and intellectual contexts, inviting a new generation to connect with the transcendentalist's timeless philosophy.

Diary of a Provincial Lady (Paperback): E.M. Delafield, Nicola Beauman Diary of a Provincial Lady (Paperback)
E.M. Delafield, Nicola Beauman
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The goal of the provincial lady is to maintain 'niceness', whether it be in the home, relationships or personal behaviour. 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' first published in the 1930s is a witty celebration of the suburban British housewife. in wartime.

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories (Hardcover): Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories (Hardcover)
Henry James; Edited by Philip Horne, Susie Boyt
R405 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R81 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A chilling collection of Henry James's finest ghost stories, now in a wonderful Clothbound Classics edition In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the very best of Henry James' short stories, including 'The Jolly Corner' and 'The Third Person', all of which explore human psychology through ghostly visitations and the uncanny.

We (Hardcover): Yevgeny Zamyatin We (Hardcover)
Yevgeny Zamyatin; Translated by Clarence Brown; Introduction by Clarence Brown; Notes by Clarence Brown; Foreword by Masha Gessen
R703 R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Save R126 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Love Child (Paperback): Edith Olivier The Love Child (Paperback)
Edith Olivier; Afterword by Simon Thomas
R311 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'She had saved her. But at what a cost! Her position, her name, her character - she had given them all, but Clarissa was hers.' Upon the death of her mother, Agatha Bodenham finds herself alone for the first time in her life. Solitary and socially awkward by nature, she starts to dream about her imaginary childhood friend - the only friend she ever had. Much to her surprise, Clarissa starts to appear, fleetingly at first, and engage with her, and eventually becomes visible to everyone else. Agatha, a 32-year- old spinster, must explain the child's 'sudden' appearance. In a moment of panic, she pretends that Clarissa is her own daughter, her love child. Olivier constructs a mother/daughter relationship which is both poignant and playful. As the years roll by and Clarissa grows into a beautiful young woman, Agatha's love becomes increasingly obsessive as she senses Clarissa slipping away, attracted by new interests and people her own age.

The Prophet (Hardcover): Kahlil Gibran The Prophet (Hardcover)
Kahlil Gibran
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A 20th century classic, The Prophet is thought-provoking, comforting and wise, and its simple truths remain compelling and rewarding to this day. Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the book touches on subjects of universal concern, including love, friendship, passion, pain, religion and freedom.

Pride and Prejudice (Paperback, Revised): Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (Paperback, Revised)
Jane Austen 3
R215 R168 Discovery Miles 1 680 Save R47 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Paperback): Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Paperback)
Robert Louis Stevenson
R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', John Utterson, a respectable London lawyer, is compelled to uncover the strange connection between his old friend, the brilliant scientist Dr Henry Jekyll, and a brooding and dangerous stranger called Edward Hyde. A horrifying and brilliant story of deception, the story is sometimes interpreted as one of the best late Victorian gothic novels. This edition is suitable for teachers and use in schools. This book has illustrations by Cam Kennedy.

The Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength (Hardcover, 75th Anniversary edition): C.... The Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength (Hardcover, 75th Anniversary edition)
C. S. Lewis 3
R814 R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Save R199 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis's classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume. The Space Trilogy is a remarkable work of fantasy, demonstrating the powerful imagination of C.S..Lewis. This new one-volume edition marks the 75th Anniversary of the first publication of Out of the Silent Planet with an exclusive Foreword by J.R.R. Tolkien, on whom the main character of Ransom was largely based. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there... PERELANDRA Having escaped from Mars, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra, or Venus. When his old enemy also arrives and is taken over by the forces of evil, Ransom finds himself in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of this Eden-like world... THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH Investigating the truth about her prophetic dreams, Jane Studdock encounters the fabled Dr Ransom, who is in great pain after his travels. A sinister society run by his old adversaries intends to harness the ancient powers of a resurrected Merlin in their ambition to subjugate the people of Earth...

Every Good Deed and Other Stories (Paperback): Dorothy Whipple Every Good Deed and Other Stories (Paperback)
Dorothy Whipple
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Unti Novel (Paperback): Anon9780063321830 Unti Novel (Paperback)
Anon9780063321830
R615 R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Save R139 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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