Books by Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
My German Brother
By Chico Buarque
A poignant meditation on the recovery of personal history, literature, and what it means to have a father.
Side Hustle
By Chris Guillebeau
The author of the New York Times bestseller The $100 Startup shows you how to launch a profitable side hustle in just 27 days. For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to start their own business is exhilarating. For many others, the loss of a stable paycheck...
Pinocchio
By Carlo Collodi
Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, crafts a marionette from a strange piece of talking wood and inadvertently brings the mischievous Pinocchio - a walking, talking, wooden boy - into the world. The naughty, selfish puppet heads off into the world and encounters all manner of unusual and dangerous characters on his...
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel Spark
Miss Jean Brodie is a rare breed of teacher - passionate, independent-minded and romantically inspired, with not the slightest care for convention. She soon garners a devoted following of six young girls, who will become known as `the Brodie set', and begins to shape them in her own image. But...
I Capture the Castle
By Dodie Smith
The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education...
Aesop's Fables
By Aesop
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly...
Prisoner of Zenda
By Anthony Hope
A rip-roaring adventure packed with political intrigue, nail-biting skirmishes and romance.
Robinson Crusoe
By Daniel Defoe
Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Cast away for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements...
Heidi
By Johanna Spyri
A beautifully illustrated edition of Johanna Spyri's endearing classic of children's fiction
Don Quixote
By Miguel de Cervantes
A beautiful, unabridged edition of the world's first novel.