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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories (Paperback): Laura Van Den Berg I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories (Paperback)
Laura Van Den Berg
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg's first story collection since her prizewinning book The Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and the mind. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg's trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from the peculiarities of Florida to liminal spaces of travel in Mexico City, Sicily, and Iceland, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the fears we reveal to no one but ourselves. In "Lizards," a man mutes his wife's anxieties by giving her a LaCroix-like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and destructive consequences, while in "Karolina," a woman discovers her prickly ex-sister-in-law in the aftermath of an earthquake and is forced to face the truth about her violent brother. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears presents a collection of women on the verge, trying to grasp what's left of life: grieving, divorced, and hyperaware, searching, vulnerable, and unhinged, they exist in a world that deviates from our own only when you look too closely. With remarkable control and transcendent talent, van den Berg dissolves, in the words of the narrator of "Slumberland," "that border between magic and annihilation," and further establishes herself as a defining fiction writer of our time.

One Piece, Vol. 103 (Paperback): Eiichiro Oda One Piece, Vol. 103 (Paperback)
Eiichiro Oda
R270 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R29 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, One Piece!

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the One Piece, said to be the greatest treasure in the world...

As Sanji and Zolo defeat the two remaining Lead Performers of the Animal Kingdom pirates, the battle intensifies between Luffy and Kaido! Meanwhile, Kid and Law are locked in a furious melee with Big Mom. Can the upstarts defeat two reigning Emperors of the Sea?!

Fragile Things - Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback): Neil Gaiman Fragile Things - Short Fictions and Wonders (Paperback)
Neil Gaiman
R456 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) (Hardcover, New edition): Sir Richard Francis Burton The Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) (Hardcover, New edition)
Sir Richard Francis Burton
R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the next evening's entertainment and thereby save her life. Among them are some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling, including the "Sinbad the Sailor," "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." This collection features more than twenty stories, in the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton, published between 1884 and 1886, and full-colour illustrations by Renata Fucikova and Jindra Capek. The Arabian Nights is one of Barnes & Noble's Leatherbound classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.

The Crock of Gold (Hardcover): James Stephens The Crock of Gold (Hardcover)
James Stephens
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A novel by Stephens. Truly unique, it is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the neverending battle of the sexes all with charm, humour and good grace.

The Black Arrow (Hardcover): Robert Louis Stevenson The Black Arrow (Hardcover)
Robert Louis Stevenson
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Notes From Underground & Other Stories (Paperback): Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes From Underground & Other Stories (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Series edited by Keith Carabine; Translated by Constance Garnett
R150 Discovery Miles 1 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground, the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide. In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has no equal.

Erewhon (Hardcover): Samuel Butler Erewhon (Hardcover)
Samuel Butler
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An adventure story/satire criticizing hypocritical mores and institutions of the Victorian Age.

And Then There Were None - The World's Favourite Agatha Christie Book (Paperback, TV tie-in edition): Agatha Christie And Then There Were None - The World's Favourite Agatha Christie Book (Paperback, TV tie-in edition)
Agatha Christie 3
R240 R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Save R26 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie's 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world's favourite. 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'. The clear winner in an international online poll held to discover the world's favourite Agatha Christie book, this new paperback also coincides with a new 3-part BBC TV adaptation featuring a stellar ensemble cast: Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody, Burn Gorman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Toby Stephens, Noah Taylor and Aidan Turner.

Dork Diaries 5 - Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All (Hardcover): Rachel Renee Russell Dork Diaries 5 - Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All (Hardcover)
Rachel Renee Russell; Illustrated by Rachel Renee Russell
R385 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R34 (9%) In Stock

Nikki Maxwell authors an advice column for the school newspaper in this fifth book of the "New York Times "bestselling Dork Diaries series.
Nikki Maxwell develops a sudden interest in student journalism that may or may not (okay, definitely does) have to do with the fact that mean girl Mackenzie has started writing a gossip column. And there just might be some juicy info involving Nikki's crush, Brandon, that Nikki doesn't want Mackenzie reporting to the world. So Nikki joins the school newspaper staff--and ends up as an advice columnist It's fun at first, answering other kids' letters. But when Miss Know-It-All's inbox is suddenly overflowing with pleas for guidance, Nikki feels in need of some help herself. Fortunately she has BFFs Chloe and Zoey on her side--and at her keyboard

Three Tales of Cranford - Cranford, the Cage at Cranford, and the Moorland Cottage (Hardcover): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Three Tales of Cranford - Cranford, the Cage at Cranford, and the Moorland Cottage (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Foreword by Clement Shorter
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, in Knutsford, a town she would immortalise as Cranford.

A Budget of Christmas Tales (Hardcover): Charles Dickens, et al A Budget of Christmas Tales (Hardcover)
Charles Dickens, et al
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Meditations (Paperback): Marcus Aurelius Meditations (Paperback)
Marcus Aurelius
R252 R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Meditations is a compendium of ruminations and reflections by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the Stoic philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author’s philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the philosopher-king.

The Awakening of Mary Fenwick (Paperback): Beatrice Whitby The Awakening of Mary Fenwick (Paperback)
Beatrice Whitby
R437 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A novel from the author of "Bequeathed." Published in facsimile from the 1900 Authorized Edition from D. Appleton and Company.

Twenty Years After (Vol. I) (Hardcover): Alexandre Dumas Twenty Years After (Vol. I) (Hardcover)
Alexandre Dumas
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This sequel to "The Three Musketeers" and follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I.

Peter Ibbetson [illustrated Edition] (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Du Maurier George Du Maurier, George Du Maurier Peter Ibbetson [illustrated Edition] (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Du Maurier George Du Maurier, George Du Maurier
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

George du Maurier's 1891 novel relates the story of two young lovers who are separated in childhood and then drawn together by destiny years later, even after they die.

Ninja Kid 2: Flying Ninja! (Paperback): Anh Do Ninja Kid 2: Flying Ninja! (Paperback)
Anh Do 1
R202 R184 Discovery Miles 1 840 Save R18 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Laugh-out-loud and fully illustrated Ninja Kid is the start of a brand new series from bestselling comedian Anh Do! Nelson is a ninja. He is not the coolest. Or the bravest. But he is the worlds nerdiest ninja! And now he has to stop an animal rampage and machines going crazy all over town! For that, he will need his new jetpack... and some serious ninja skills! How will Nelson learn to fly when he is scared of heights?!

The Mirror of the Sea (Hardcover): Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea (Hardcover)
Joseph Conrad
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 10 - 15 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 (Hardcover): Emile Zola The Downfall (Hardcover)
Emile Zola
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Prince Otto - A Romance (Hardcover): Robert Louis Stevenson Prince Otto - A Romance (Hardcover)
Robert Louis Stevenson
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Three Tales of Cranford - Cranford, the Cage at Cranford, and the Moorland Cottage (Paperback): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Three Tales of Cranford - Cranford, the Cage at Cranford, and the Moorland Cottage (Paperback)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, in Knutsford, a town she would immortalise as Cranford.

Nana (Hardcover): Emile Zola Nana (Hardcover)
Emile Zola
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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

The Mirror of the Sea (Paperback): Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea (Paperback)
Joseph Conrad
R424 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R62 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 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
R592 R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Save R36 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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