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The Return of the King (Large print, Paperback, Large type edition): J. R. R. Tolkien The Return of the King (Large print, Paperback, Large type edition)
J. R. R. Tolkien
R596 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R103 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Large print hardback edition of the final volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings. The climactic volume of the trilogy, wherein the little hobbit and his trusty companions make a terrible journey to the heart of the land of the Shadow in a final reckoning with the power of Sauron. Impossible to describe in a few words, J.R.R. Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a vast new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal.

So Big (Hardcover): Edna Ferber So Big (Hardcover)
Edna Ferber
R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Brave New World (Paperback, Export E.): Aldous Huxley Brave New World (Paperback, Export E.)
Aldous Huxley
R286 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R42 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our own reality.

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...

Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece.

Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 1 (Paperback): Hajime Komoto Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Hajime Komoto
R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Can muscles crush magic?! In the magic realm, magic is everything-everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competition without revealing his secret-he can't use magic! Mash just wants to live in peace with his father in the forest. But the only way he'll ever be accepted in the magic realm is by attending magic school and becoming a Divine Visionary-an exceptional student revered as one the chosen. But without an ounce of magic to his name, Mash will have to punch his way to the top spot.

Nobody Gets Out Alive - Stories (Paperback): Leigh Newman Nobody Gets Out Alive - Stories (Paperback)
Leigh Newman
R440 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Summer's Afternoon (Paperback): Tilly Bagshawe One Summer's Afternoon (Paperback)
Tilly Bagshawe
R128 Discovery Miles 1 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is no ordinary cricket match. This is the Swell Valley One Day Match... More exclusive than the Buckingham Palace Summer Garden Party, and more star-studded than Cartier Polo, the annual Fittlescombe vs Brockhurst cricket match is older than the Ashes, and every bit as hotly contested. The Fittlescombe team have their hopes pinned on local boy Will Nuttley, but 24 year-old Will has his heart set on winning back the love of his life, Emma Harwich. As the champagne goes on ice and the sandwiches are being cut, little do the Swell Valley residents know that Emma has got wind of Brockhurst's newly arrived 'secret weapon', the Argentine heartthrob Santiago de la Cruz. She's intent on sleeping with the enemy, and it's throwing Will into a spin...

The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol (Paperback, 2 Ed): Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol (Paperback, 2 Ed)
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol; Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear
R407 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R42 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of the delusional clerk in 'The Diary of a Madman' - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. To this superb new translation - the first in twenty-five years and destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's short fiction - Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky bring the same clarity and fidelity to the original that they brought to their brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's works and to War and Peace.

Lone Star Planet (Hardcover): H.Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire Lone Star Planet (Hardcover)
H.Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gorillaz Almanac (Hardcover): Gorillaz Gorillaz Almanac (Hardcover)
Gorillaz; Performed by Gorillaz
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Inspired by the great British tradition of the hardback annual, the Gorillaz Almanac is a full colour, one-of-a-kind, fun-packed, 200 page, sideways homage to two glorious decades of Gorillaz. Jammed with exclusive new artwork, including the first ever strip to star 2D and Murdoc Niccals; puzzles, games and more; plus a raft of special guest appearances from Gorillaz collaborators past and present, the Gorillaz Almanac is a compendium of delights which finally puts the most real band around on the printed page.

The Betrothed (Hardcover): Walter Scott The Betrothed (Hardcover)
Walter Scott
R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Seat of the Scornful - A Devon Mystery (Paperback): John Dickson-Carr The Seat of the Scornful - A Devon Mystery (Paperback)
John Dickson-Carr
R311 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break from his duty after a session of assizes, Ireton retreats to his seaside bungalow in Devon and turns his attention to family, and specifically in attempting to bribe his daughter's lover Morrell to leave her alone so that she may instead marry the respectable clerk, Fred Barlow. It seems something about the deal with Morrell must have gone amiss, however, when the police are called to the Justice's residence to find Morrell shot dead and the judge still holding a pistol. But would the lawman be so bold to commit a murder like this? With a number of strange items making up the physical evidence Dr Gideon Fell, himself an old friend of Ireton's, is summoned to help with the deceptively simple - yet increasingly complex - investigation.

The Great Gatsby (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
R215 R201 Discovery Miles 2 010 Save R14 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. 'I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.' Jay Gatsby's opulent Long Island mansion throngs with the bright young things of the Roaring Twenties. But Gatsby himself, young, handsome and mysteriously rich, never appears to his guests. He stands apart from the crowd, yearning for something just out of reach - Daisy Buchanan, lost years before to another man. One fateful summer, when the pair finally reunite, their actions set in motion a series of events that will unravel their lives, bringing tragedy to all who surround them. Widely considered F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby is a tale of excess and obsession, and a work of classic twentieth-century American literature.

North and South (Paperback, New edition): Elizabeth Gaskell North and South (Paperback, New edition)
Elizabeth Gaskell; Introduction by Patsy Stoneham; Notes by Patsy Stoneham; Series edited by Keith Carabine
R122 Discovery Miles 1 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society. This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market. Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later: the complex relationships, public and private, between men and women of different classes.

The Hobbit (Hardcover, Special Collector's edition): J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit (Hardcover, Special Collector's edition)
J. R. R. Tolkien 3
R548 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R97 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the best-selling classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design inspired by THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and brand new reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.

Arthurian Myths & Legends - Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters (Hardcover): Raluca Radulescu Arthurian Myths & Legends - Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters (Hardcover)
Raluca Radulescu; Edited by Jk Jackson
R323 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Many medieval writers, especially from France and Wales, wrote stories about the great British leader, King Arthur. Legends, folklore and myths from this period come together to paint a picture of who he was with some describing him as a great warrior, defending Britain from its enemies, while others suggest Arthur had magical qualities. Throughout this mystery, King Arthur has become an iconic figure, known for his court and knights and his chivalric adventures. This collection offers a selection of myths, featuring Arthur's knights of the round table, his love for Queen Guinevere and of course the ultimate betrayal by his most trusted knight, Sir Lancelot. Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors, myths and tales without which the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best, most influential and most fascinating works into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction and a Glossary of Terms.

The Plattner Story and Others (Hardcover): H. G. Wells The Plattner Story and Others (Hardcover)
H. G. Wells
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kingston Noah the Super Firefighter (Hardcover): Albert Kirkland Kingston Noah the Super Firefighter (Hardcover)
Albert Kirkland; Illustrated by Urusa Zeeshan
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lucifer's Sword MC - Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club (Paperback): Phil Cross, Ronn Sutton Lucifer's Sword MC - Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club (Paperback)
Phil Cross, Ronn Sutton
R576 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A graphic novel by a lifelong motorcycle club member, inspired by the secrets of one percenters.

Phil Cross has been a Hells Angel for over 40 years. In the world of outlaw motorcycle clubs, there are many stories that can't be told, for a variety of reasons, but they have spurred Phil's imagination to create a fictional story inspired by real events.

One-percenter antiheroes populate these pagesa tougher and wilder than any character ever played by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, or Marlon Brando. The guys in the tales Phil spins might remind you of Easy Rider and The Wild One, but the hard glint in their eyes proves that they are based on the real deal.

Illustrator Ronn Sutton provides stunning visuals to bring Phil's stories to life. These bikers aren't going to ride off into the sunset any time soon."

The Two Destinies (Hardcover): Wilkie Collins The Two Destinies (Hardcover)
Wilkie Collins
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Show Boat (Hardcover): Edna Ferber Show Boat (Hardcover)
Edna Ferber
R920 Discovery Miles 9 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Colour of Poison and the Colour of Gold (Hardcover): Toni Mount The Colour of Poison and the Colour of Gold (Hardcover)
Toni Mount
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Meditations (Paperback): Marcus Aurelius Meditations (Paperback)
Marcus Aurelius
R254 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Save R22 (9%) Ships in 9 - 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.

Redemption song and other stories - The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 (Paperback): Redemption song and other stories - The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 (Paperback)
R220 R203 Discovery Miles 2 030 Save R17 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Now in its nineteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. This collection brings together the five 2018 shortlisted stories: American Dream by Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria); The Armed Letter Writers by Olofunke Ogundimu (Nigeria); Fanta Blackcurrant by Makena Onjerika (Kenya); Involution by Stacy Hardy (South Africa); Wednesday's Story by Wole Talabi (Nigeria). It also includes 12 stories written at the Caine Prize Writers' Workshop, which took place in Rwanda in April 2018: No Ordinary Soiree by Paula Akugizibwe; Tie Kidi by Awuor Onyango; Calling the Clouds Home by Heran T. Abate; America by Caroline Numuhire; All Things Bright and Beautiful by Troy Onyango; Departure by Nsah Mala; Where Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila; Ngozi by Bongani Sibanda; The Weaving of Death by Lucky Grace Isingizwe; Redemption Song by Arinze Ifeakandu; Spaceman by Bongani Kona; Grief is the Gift that Breaks the Spirit Open by Eloghosa Osunde. The 2018 judging panel comprises: Dinaw Mengestu, journalist, author and graduate of Georgetown University and of Columbia University's M.F.A. programme in fiction; Alain Mabanckou, prolific Francophone Congolese poet and novelist and Man Booker International Prize finalist (2015); reporter, columnist and poet Ahmed Rajab; Henrietta Rose-Innes, a South African author who won the Caine Prize in 2008; and Lola Shoneyin, a Nigerian writer who has won the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize.

The Great Gatsby (Paperback): F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
R95 R85 Discovery Miles 850 Save R10 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age. ‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there’. Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald’s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to try and entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald’s succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits.

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