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Beyond the Dark Journey: Short Stories And Poems By Young Refugees in New Zealand

Pauline Frances · 2010

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,676)

Wellington Refugees as Survivors Trust 2010 Paperback 129 Pages tanned. Good

Vita Brevis : A Letter to St Augustine

Jostein Gaarder · 1998

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group 1998 Paperback 164 A box of Ltin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocyphral invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcrpit of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St...

New Zealand Short Stories (the World's Classics)

D. M. Davin · 1970

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

Oxford University Press 1970 Hardback 426 New Zealand Short Stories, selected with an introduction by D. M. Davin. Includes stories by Alfred A. Grace, Lady Barker, Henry Lapham, William Baucke, John A. Lee, Katherine Mansfield, B. E. Baughan, James Courage, Alice F. Webb, Fra...

Earthless Trees: Short Stories By Young Refugees in New Zealand

Pauline Frances · 2008

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Wellington Refugees as Survivors Trust 2008 Paperback 131 Created during a series of writing workshops for young refugees, these vibrant stories provide an insight into the lives of new New Zealanders - individuals and families who came to New Zealand seeking security and free...

Corfu

Robert Dessaix · 2001

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Picador 2001 Hardback 346 In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he's never met, an Australian actor gradually pieces together the strange life story of the writer whose house he is living in. As he explores his surroundings and makes new friends, h...

Lottery

Patricia Wood · 2008

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Penguin Random House 2008 Paperback 310 Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won't forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And most important...

The Emotional Challenges Of Immigration Strategies And Stories Of Those Who Stayed

Ellie Baker · 2014

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,113)

Smeaton Publishing 2014 Paperback 172 Immigrants make up 3. 15% of the world's population, that's 216 million people. How do you successfully progress from emigration to being a long term immigrant? You may not have moved countries; you may have changed areas, such as rural to...

Fayum Portraits

Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter · 2004

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Assouline 2004 Hardback 79 Miraculously hidden in the shroud of the Egyptian desert are a thousand portraits of Fayum (so named because of the region where most of them were found). These portraits have fascinated throughout the centuries because of their uncanny presence. Thi...

Slippery Jim Or Patriotic Statesman? James Macandrew Of Otago

R. J. Bunce · 2018

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Otago University Press 2018 Paperback 375 This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 1851, other settlers were impressed by his energy and enthusiasm for new initiatives. With h...

Late Sonata

Bryan Walpert · 2020

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,113)

Brio Books 2020 Paperback 168 With his wife suffering from Alzheimer's, Stephen reluctantly edits her final book, a study of Beethoven's sonatas, even as he still grieves the loss of their son. Each day he escapes into his own work: a novel about an experimental treatment that...

Voodoo

Peter Bland · 2018

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,474)

Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd 2018 Paperback 64 Peter Bland's new poems in Voodoo are about celebrating life and remembering the dead. Remorse and bewilderment are engaged in the face of so much contemporary displacement and global cruelties. These poems actively hang on to the ...

Macbeth A True Story

Fiona Watson · 2011

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Hodder 2011 Paperback 336 Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried beneath the layers of myth, a history that is entirely different from, but just as extraordinary as, tha...

New Zealand Pubs: 175 Classic Pubs To Visit

Peter Janssen · 2018

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,794)

New Holland 2018 Paperback 362 New Zealanders love a pub, especially one with an interesting past. This guide provides a selection of the best -- pubs that are not only a great place to relax but are cornerstones of their communities, playing a part in the history of New Zeala...

Broths To Bannocks: Cooking In Scotland - 1690 To The Present Day

Catherine Brown · 1991

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John Murray 1991 Paperback 273 The author takes the reader on a tour of Scotland's kitchens from the late 17th century to the present day in a celebration of all that is simple and authentic in the Scottish food tradition. Here are softly simmered broths flavoured with fresh h...

The Aristos

John Fowles · 1968

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Pan 1968 Paperback 222 Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, the author set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In t...

Dead Man's Blues: City Blues Quartet Book 2

Ray Celestin · 2021

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

Pan Macmillan 2021 Paperback 496 Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Black Belt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a ...

The Stranger Times (The Stranger Times 1)

C.K. Mcdonnell · 2022

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

National Geographic Books 2022 Paperback 448 There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them... A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the...

The Secret History

Michael Hulse · 2009

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Arc Publications 2009 Paperback 113 Almost painfully direct, the poems of 'The Secret History' testify to a new depth and a new tenderness in Michael Hulse's voice. The shadow of his dead father and the light of new love meet here in a collection that is impossible to put down...

SASS: A Community Think Journal - Issue 1 November 2022

Vanessa Cole and Cissy Rock and Simie Simpson · 2022

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Community Think 2022 Paperback 47 This journal is called ‘sass –’ a word often used negatively, in gendered and racialised ways – to describe someone who speaks their mind. We are using this word to describe the kind of conversations we want to have in this journal: to be bold...

A Queer Existence The Lives Of Young Gay Men In Aotearoa New Zealand

Mark Beehre · 2021

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,629)

Massey University Press 2021 Paperback 343 A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that uses photographic portraiture and oral history to record the life experiences of a group of 27 gay men born since the passing of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in 1986. In New Zeala...