London: Penguin Books, 2015. Jen Van Der Veken (cover art). Reprint. Paperback. Patrick Süskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Allison Saltzman (cover design). First UK Paperback Edition. Reprint. Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Swing A Cat (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. Based on true stories and new research, Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony of Macao –..... More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2017. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Softcover. The handover in 1997 saw Hong Kong’s smooth transition from colonial to Communist rule under the auspices of the ‘one country, two systems’ framework. But twenty years on, the real impact of the sovereignty change is just starting to..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2015. Cardboard box with 100 postcards inside. A collection of 100 postcards featuring iconic, bizarre, and mind-blowing science fiction book covers Exploring the weird, wonderful world of science fiction cover art, this set of one hundred postcards includes classic images from some of the of the..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2011. Cardboard box with 100 postcards inside. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Penguin Modern Classics we are publishing an incredibly desirable and collectable postcard collection of 100 Modern Classics authors. Following the success of Postcards from Penguin this is a must-have box of beautifully..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2010. Cardboard box with 100 postcards inside. A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at..... More
Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019. Sushan Chan (cover design). First Edition. Paperback. This is a fascinating, insightful collection of essays by some of the world’s most renowned China experts, who share personal recollections of their time in China—often beginning in the 1970s, when foreigners were..... More
New York: Laura Geringer Books/HarperTrophy, 2007. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. "A terrific yarn, full of smart detection and hip good humor" (Stephen King) Behind the Curtain is the second book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams, following the acclaimed Down the Rabbit Hole..... More
New York: Laura Geringer Books/HarperTrophy, 2006. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. "My all-time favorite. Astonishing." (Stephen King) Down the Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Perfect for middle school readers looking for a good mystery. Welcome to..... More
London: Scholastics Children's Books, 2015. Bill Sanderson (cover illustration). 30th Anniversary Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The second book in Philip Pullman's classic SALLY LOCKHART quartet in a beautiful new edition to celebrate the 30 year anniversary. Sally Lockhart is twenty-two, and running her own financial consultancy - a thoroughly modern..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. `. Trade Paperback. In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage..... More
London: Abacus, 2013. Stuart Woolf (tr.). Reprint. Paperback. With an introduction by Howard Jacobson and afterword by Paul Bailey. With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think..... More
New York: Schocken Books, 1995. Oliver Munday (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew... More
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Trade Paperback. Part of the Unpublished Stories Series, Penguin Modern Classics. Translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2006. Wang Chao (cover illustration). Trade Paperback. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family's expense returns to Shanghai armed with a bogus degree from a...... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2020. First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The master of the visual mash-up returns with his signature idiosyncratic take on the Constitution R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth century comics. With Terms..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2010. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Anthony S. David Dr. Laing’s first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a...... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2016. Charlie Louth (tr.). First Penguin Classics Edition. Eighth Printing. Paperback. 'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love..... More
London: Harper Voyager, 2008. Clare Skeats (cover design), Neil Gower (spine icon). Reprint. Paperback. The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy;..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this..... More
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1993. Paperback. The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film “Short Cuts” directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. From the..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2009. Michael Salu (cover design). Trade Paperback. With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time..... More
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