Jane Austen Classics Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Ref #: PLB-0045-AB
RM20 (np: RM32.90)
3 novels in 1
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Ref #: PLB-0046-AB
RM28 (np: RM36.90)
the complete plays, poems and stories
including Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
Ref #: PLB-0048-AB
RM5 (np: RM8.50)
Lustrum by Richard Harris
Ref #: PLB-0045-AB
RM20 (np: RM32.90)
3 novels in 1
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Ref #: PLB-0046-AB
RM28 (np: RM36.90)
the complete plays, poems and stories
including Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Ref #: PLB-0047-AB
RM5 (np: RM8.50)
The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
RM5 (np: RM8.50)
Lustrum by Richard Harris
Ref #: PLB-0006-AB
RM40 (np: RM69.90)
Rome, 63BC. The stories of real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, cruelties and seductions, brilliance and crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel which is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power
Rome, 63BC. The stories of real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, cruelties and seductions, brilliance and crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel which is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power
Attila by William Napier
Ref #: PLB-0005-AB
RM35 (np:RM59.90)
5th century AD, Roman empire totters on the edge of the abyss. Rumours abound of a new power arising in the east, a ferocious nation of horse-warriors known as the Huns, striking terror into the border tribes. And now they have a new leader; Attila, 'the Scourge of God'.
5th century AD, Roman empire totters on the edge of the abyss. Rumours abound of a new power arising in the east, a ferocious nation of horse-warriors known as the Huns, striking terror into the border tribes. And now they have a new leader; Attila, 'the Scourge of God'.
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Ref #: PLB-0004-AB
RM35 (np: RM49.90)
Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, this book finally gives a woman's take on the timeless tale that is the Mahabharata. It's a deeply human story about a woman born into a man's world.
All Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, this book finally gives a woman's take on the timeless tale that is the Mahabharata. It's a deeply human story about a woman born into a man's world.
All Shall Be Well by Tod Wodicka
Ref #: PLB-0003-AB
RM35 (np: RM65.90)
Meet Burt Hecker, medieval re-enactor who dresses in tunics who has sold all his possessions and bought a one-way ticket to Europe, bent on rescuing his son Tristan from the 'evil' city of Prague. If only he knew that his son doesn't want to be rescued, or found.
Meet Burt Hecker, medieval re-enactor who dresses in tunics who has sold all his possessions and bought a one-way ticket to Europe, bent on rescuing his son Tristan from the 'evil' city of Prague. If only he knew that his son doesn't want to be rescued, or found.
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Ref #: PLB-0002-AB
RM40 (np: RM69.90)
Two boys grow up in upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy and becomes a painter. The other stays to marry an artist, to run a small empire of convenience stores, and to tell their story. Now at 60, husband and wife travels to Venice where his oldest friend and rival has traded past and family for a life far removed from New York.
Two boys grow up in upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy and becomes a painter. The other stays to marry an artist, to run a small empire of convenience stores, and to tell their story. Now at 60, husband and wife travels to Venice where his oldest friend and rival has traded past and family for a life far removed from New York.
The Dragon's Tail by Adam Williams
Ref #: PLB-0007-AB
RM25 (np: RM74.90)
From the Cold War through the horror of the Cultural Revolution and into the bloody climax of Tiananmen Square, this book traces a gripping adventure of modern China.
From the Cold War through the horror of the Cultural Revolution and into the bloody climax of Tiananmen Square, this book traces a gripping adventure of modern China.
Mysteries of Eleusis by Margaret Doody
Ref #: PLB-0001-AB
RM10 (np: RM35.90)
The great philosopher Aristotle helps his former student Stephanos investigate a break-in and brutal murder. The man fingered for the crime turn against Stephanos just as he is planning to marry Philomela. It is difficult to arrange a big fat Greek wedding when someone seems to be trying to kill you. Elsewhere, bodies begin to pile up - who will be bludgeoned or stabbed or strangle next?
The Religion by Tim Willocks
Ref #: PLB-0034-AB
RM30
"The Religion is a novel for our times, dealing as it does with the clash between the Christian West and the Islamic East... as his epic tale unfolds, he examines, through the reactions of his cast of characters, all of them caught up in extreme circumstances, the phenomenon of religion."
Independent
The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun Tejpal
Ref #: PLB-0035-AB
RM25 (np: RM37.90)
Young couple from a small town in India, penniless but gloriously in love, move to the big city where the man works feverishly on a novel, stopping only to feed his ceaseless desire for his beautiful wife. In time the lovers abandon the city for an old house in the mist-shrouded Himalayas. While renovating their ramshackle new home, the young man unearths a chest full of diaries written by the previous owner. Thrust into another world and time, he slowly uncovers the dark secrets at the heart of her story...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ref #: PLB-0036-AB
RM35 (np: RM44.00)
-Oprah Winfrey Book Club
-Recommended for discussion
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-month club translation prize
RM30
"The Religion is a novel for our times, dealing as it does with the clash between the Christian West and the Islamic East... as his epic tale unfolds, he examines, through the reactions of his cast of characters, all of them caught up in extreme circumstances, the phenomenon of religion."
Independent
The Alchemy of Desire by Tarun Tejpal
Ref #: PLB-0035-AB
RM25 (np: RM37.90)
Young couple from a small town in India, penniless but gloriously in love, move to the big city where the man works feverishly on a novel, stopping only to feed his ceaseless desire for his beautiful wife. In time the lovers abandon the city for an old house in the mist-shrouded Himalayas. While renovating their ramshackle new home, the young man unearths a chest full of diaries written by the previous owner. Thrust into another world and time, he slowly uncovers the dark secrets at the heart of her story...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ref #: PLB-0036-AB
RM35 (np: RM44.00)
-Oprah Winfrey Book Club
-Recommended for discussion
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-month club translation prize
Close Range
Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Ref #: PLB-0037-AB
RM15 (np: RM32.90)
-The author who penned Brokeback Mountain
The wild country - indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky - provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like claw in the gut. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land, and will delight Proulx's fans everywhere.
Roots by Alex Haley
RM15 (np: RM32.90)
-The author who penned Brokeback Mountain
The wild country - indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky - provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like claw in the gut. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land, and will delight Proulx's fans everywhere.
Roots by Alex Haley
Ref #: PLB-0039-AB
RM38 (np: RM49.90)
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, he discovered a 16-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his hoimeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
RM38 (np: RM49.90)
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, he discovered a 16-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his hoimeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Ref #: PLB-0040-AB
RM30 (np: RM35.90)
"Wow... Blockbuster perfection... an exhilaratingly brainy thriller. Not since the advent of Harry Potter has an author so flagrantly delighted in leading readers on a breathless chase." New York Times
Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman
RM30 (np: RM35.90)
"Wow... Blockbuster perfection... an exhilaratingly brainy thriller. Not since the advent of Harry Potter has an author so flagrantly delighted in leading readers on a breathless chase." New York Times
Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman
by Sue Townsend
Ref #: PLB-0038-AB
RM18 (np: RM32.95)
RM18 (np: RM32.95)
"Full of homely, hilarious asides on the absurdities of domestic existence... What a fantastic advertisement for middle age - it can't be bad if its this funny" - Heat
"A welcome addition to any bookshelf" - Hello
