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The Haunting of Leigh Harker (Paperback): Darcy Coates The Haunting of Leigh Harker (Paperback)
Darcy Coates
R287 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

From bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes a chilling story of a quiet house on a forgotten suburban lane that hides a deadly secret... Leigh Harker's quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep. Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her home, Leigh struggles to find answers. But each step forces her towards something more terrifying than she ever imagined. A poisonous shadow seeps from the locked door beneath the stairs. The handle rattles through the night and fingernails scratch at the wood. Her home harbours dangerous secrets, and now that Leigh is trapped within its walls, she fears she may never escape. Do you think you're safe? You're wrong. Also By Darcy Coates: The Haunting of Ashburn House The Haunting of Blackwood House Craven Manor The House Next Door Voices in the Snow The Whispering Dead

The Mysterious Mr. Badman - A Yorkshire Bibliomystery (Paperback): W. F Harvey The Mysterious Mr. Badman - A Yorkshire Bibliomystery (Paperback)
W. F Harvey; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R304 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

On holiday in Keldstone visiting his nephew, Jim, blanket manufacturer Athelstan Digby agrees to look after the old bookshop on the ground floor of his lodgings while his hosts are away. On the first day of his tenure, a vicar, a chauffeur and an out-of-town stranger enquire after The Life and Death of Mr. Badman by John Bunyan. When a copy mysteriously arrives at the shop in a bundle of books brought in by a young scamp, and is subsequently stolen, Digby moves to investigate the significance of the book along with his nephew, and the two are soon embroiled in a case in which the stakes have risen from antiquarian book-pinching to ruthless murder. First published in a limited run in 1934, this exceedingly rare and fast-paced bibliomystery set against the landscapes of Yorkshire is long overdue its return to print.

Metamorphosis (Hardcover): Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman Metamorphosis (Hardcover)
Franz Kafka, Michael Hoffman
R275 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R27 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. One morning, ordinary salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach. Metamorphosis, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth century's most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here by two more classic stories. 'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' - Vladimir Nabokov

The Mirror of the Sea (Paperback): Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea (Paperback)
Joseph Conrad
R451 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R66 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was a remarkable figures in English literature. A master stylist, both lush and precise, his outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires.

The Downfall (Paperback): Emile Zola The Downfall (Paperback)
Emile Zola
R630 R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Save R44 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

Nana (Paperback): Emile Zola Nana (Paperback)
Emile Zola
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

The Life of Mary Jemison (Paperback): James E. Seaver The Life of Mary Jemison (Paperback)
James E. Seaver
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amonst them to the present time.

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Paperback): Rudyard Kipling Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Paperback)
Rudyard Kipling
R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essential one-volume edition of Kipling's best verse from all of his other collections.

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Paperback): Guy De Maupassant The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Paperback)
Guy De Maupassant
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The volume collects 128 of Guy de Maupassant's finest short stories, from "Ball-of-Fat" to "The Last Step."

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Paperback): Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Paperback)
R109 Discovery Miles 1 090 Ships in 5 - 7 working days

Classics with legible texts you can actually read at a fantastic price.

Wuthering Heights - Heritage Collection (Hardcover): Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights - Heritage Collection (Hardcover)
Emily Bronte
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father.

After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Death on the Down Beat - An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection (Paperback): Sebastian Farr Death on the Down Beat - An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection (Paperback)
Sebastian Farr; Introduction by Martin Edwards
R305 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The headline from The Maningpool Telegraph read: TRAGIC DEATH OF SIR NOEL GRAMPIAN – shot during performance – Symphony Concert Calamity.

As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is shot dead in full view of the Municipal Orchestra and the audience. It was no secret that he had many enemies – musicians and music critics among them – but to be killed in mid flow suggests an act of the coldest calculation.

Told through the letters and documents sent by D.I. Alan Hope to his wife as he puzzles through the dauntingly vast pool of suspects and scant physical evidence in the case, this is an innovative and playful mystery underscored by the author’s extensive experience of the highly-strung world of music professionals. First published in 1941, this new edition returns Farr’s only crime novel to print to receive its long-deserved encore.

Tanglewood Tales (Hardcover): Nathaniel Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales (Hardcover)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
R796 Discovery Miles 7 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Budget of Christmas Tales (Hardcover): Charles Dickens, et al A Budget of Christmas Tales (Hardcover)
Charles Dickens, et al
R833 Discovery Miles 8 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wuthering Heights (Paperback): Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
Emily Bronte
R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bless the Beasts & Children (Paperback): Glendon Swarthout Bless the Beasts & Children (Paperback)
Glendon Swarthout
R395 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the author of "The Homesman," Glendon Swarthout's "Bless the Beasts & Children" is the classic coming-of-age novel that explores the fabric of the American ideal--as seen through the eyes of rebellious youth.
"Send us a boy--we'll send you a cowboy" It doesn't matter if the kid hates the sight of horses. Or if he still sucks his thumb and wets the bed. He's got to be taught to toe the line. To measure up. To dig in his spurs--because that's the way things are at the Box Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona.
Based on the adventures of the author's own son, "Bless the Beasts & Children" tells a tragicomic tale of a group of disturbed teenaged boys from over-privileged families who are sent by their inattentive parents to camp in hopes that their lazy, urban kids will be toughened up in the cowboy program. Complications arise, but these problem boys band together to take up an important cause.
In this remarkable novel, Glendon Swarthout presents an electrifying portrait of six adolescent "misfits" on a desperate mission to save themselves. And, in a society dedicated to one narrow view of success, they learn something important about what it means to be a man. This is "an exciting mission-pursuit story with an engrossing cast of characters" ("Publishers Weekly").

Final Acts - Theatrical Mysteries (Paperback): Martin Edwards Final Acts - Theatrical Mysteries (Paperback)
Martin Edwards
R345 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk everything to land a starring role, costumed figures lead to mistaken identities, and on-stage deaths begin to look a little too convincing. . . This expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories from giants of the classic crime genre such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian Symons and Ngaio Marsh, as well as firm favourites from the British Library Crime Classics series: Anthony Wynne, Christianna Brand, Bernard J. Farmer and many more. Mysteries abound when a player's fate hangs on a single performance, and opening night may very well be their last.

Can Such Things Be? (Hardcover): Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be? (Hardcover)
Ambrose Bierce
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
And Then There Were None (Hardcover, Special edition): Agatha Christie And Then There Were None (Hardcover, Special edition)
Agatha Christie
R458 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Agatha Christie's masterpiece, and the best-selling murder mystery book of all time, celebrates its 80th birthday with this gorgeous hardback Special Edition. 'We're not going to leave the island. None of us will ever leave. It's the end, you see - the end of everything...' 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number. The 10 strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its 'Ten Little Soldier Boys'.

Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories (Hardcover): Nathaniel Hawthorne Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories (Hardcover)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
So Big (Hardcover): Edna Ferber So Big (Hardcover)
Edna Ferber
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Great Gatsby (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
R274 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the lavishly outfitted mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsby. Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby’s intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and when Daisy’s brutish husband, Tom, probes into Gatsby’s background, he uncovers unsavory revelations about his rival’s wealth. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel offers a definitive portrait of the opulence and recklessness of the Jazz Age.

The GBP1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (Hardcover): Mark Twain The GBP1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories (Hardcover)
Mark Twain
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Persuasion (Hardcover): Jane Austen Persuasion (Hardcover)
Jane Austen
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.

The Betrothed (Hardcover): Walter Scott The Betrothed (Hardcover)
Walter Scott
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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