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Cinderella Goes to the Morgue by Nancy Spain
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Crime / Romance | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi ToksvigWhen Prince Charming is murdered and the principal dancer hits the b ...Show more
Cock by Mike Bartlett; Mark O'Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Modern Classics Ser.
'But that's what this is, isn't it? The ultimate bitch fight.' When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out Mike Bartlett's punchy new story takes a playful, candid lo ...Show more
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain. A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the obj ...Show more
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Crime / Romance | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they find that, instead of laying their ghosts to rest, they become caught up in a train of strange events. This volume contains stories that exp ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
$22.95 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental nov ...Show more
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat - Sarah Waters Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece to India. Fire From Heaven tells the story of ...Show more
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
$37.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and "one of the great books of our time" (Newsday). At the Pearl Harbor army base in 1941, Robert E. Lee Prewitt is Uncle Sam's finest bugler. A career soldier with no patience for army poli ...Show more