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Jacqueline Wilson · 2003

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Corgi Yearling 2003 Paperback 126 A wonderful collection of linked short stories by our bestselling author. Lots of the kids in Mr Speed's class have something to worry about. From a new stepmum to coping with Maths, everyone has their own private concerns and it's sometimes d...

The Bed And Breakfast Star

Jacqueline Wilson · 2006

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Corgi Yearling 2006 Paperback 208 Meet Elsa - The Bed and Breakfast star! 'Hey, when is a door not a door? When it's ajar!' Elsa loves to tell jokes. She KNOWS she's going to be a big star one day - doing what she does best, making people laugh. But, after her family lose thei...

Starring Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson · 2006

NZ$22.00 (€11.03 | $12.16 | £9.20 | ¥1,941)

Doubleday 2006 Hardback 173 Tracy Beaker is back... and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchi...

The Clan Of The Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel · 2002

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Hodder & Stoughton 2002 Paperback 587 The Clan of the cave bear is the first of Earth's Children series. Ayla, a tall, blond, blue-eyed girl lost her family in an earthquake. She is nurtured and protected by some members of the Clan, but there are those who would cast her out ...

The Ice Chorus A Novel

Sarah Stonich · 2005

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Little, Brown and Company 2005 Hardback 330 Falling in love unexpectedly during an archaeological dig in Mexico, Lisanne enters into a brief extramarital affair and subsequently travels to Ireland, where she explores devastating secrets that she has discovered about her belove...

Keep It Real: Everything You Need To Know About Researching And Writing Creative Nonfiction

Lee Gutkind · 2009

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

W. W. Norton & Company 2009 Paperback 170 The one guide every creative nonfiction writer needs to turn to when being "creative. " Writers of memoir and narrative nonfiction are experiencing difficult days with the discovery that some well-known works in the genre contain exagg...

Participative Approaches For Landcare

Shankariah Chamala and Ken J. Keith · 1995

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Australian Academic Press 1995 Paperback 312 Analyses the differing ideas and values of a cross-section of Landcare professionals. Fair

Jacob's Room Is Full Of Books

Susan Hill · 2017

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Profile Books Limited 2017 Hardback 266 "When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's room is full of books. Considering everything from Edith Whar...

The Archivist A Novel

Martha Cooley · 1998

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Little, Brown 1998 Hardback 328 Matthias is a man of orderly ways, a librarian whose life rarely strays from its narrow channels. At the library where he works is an archive of letters from the poet T. S. Eliot to an American woman, written during the years Eliot was undertaki...

C - A Novel

Tom Mccarthy · 2010

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Alfred A. Knopf 2010 Hardback 310 Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noi...

Lilliput Goes To War

Kaye Webb · 1985

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Hutchinson 1985 Hardback 288 Selections from the British magazine, related to WW 2. DJ. Very Good

Something Rising (Light And Swift)

Haven Kimmel · 2003

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Free Press 2003 Hardback 288 When her rakish, gambling father abandons the family, pool hustler Cassie Claiborne is forced into a position of abandoning her own dreams to take care of her distant mother and fragile older sister, until, at the age of thirty, she comes up with a...

The Neon Wilderness

Nelson Algren · 2002

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Seven Stories Press 2002 Paperback 308 " Algren's classic 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent novels and stories. The stories in this collection are literary triumphs that "don't fade away. " Among the stories included here are...

Red Dog

Louis de Bernières · 2002

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Vintage 2002 Paperback 119 'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. T...

Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II

Ben H. Winters · 2013

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Quirk Books 2013 Paperback 316 There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U. S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over... until...

A La Recherche Du Cricket Perdu

Simon Barnes · 1989

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Macmillan London 1989 Hardback 137 An anthology of writing on cricket by 25 writers, illustrated with specially commissioned cartoons in parodic style. There are pieces from P. G. Woodhouse to J. R. R. Tolkien and Hunter S. Thompson. Simon Barnes' last book "Horsesweat and Tea...

Break Of Day

Colette · 2002

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2002 Paperback 141 Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel's theme—the renunciation of love and the return to an ...

Griffith Review 43: Pacific Highways

Lloyd Jones and Julianne Schultz · 2014

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Text Publishing Company 2014 Paperback 264 Migration, demographic changes and new cultural references are reshaping New Zealand. It is fast becoming a hub where Pacific and Tasman currents meet. As a result, New Zealand is changing, in response to surging tides of people and i...

Mother, Missing

Joyce Carol Oates · 2005

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Fourth Estate 2005 Paperback 450 Single, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting, Nikki Eaton has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. She learns to cope with the unexpected loss of her mother over the course of a tumultuous year of mourning that br...

Long Hot Summer

Barbara Anderson · 2000

NZ$12.50 (€6.27 | $6.91 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Jonathan Cape 2000 Paperback 263 It is 1936. As they have done every summer, the Hopkins family – Derek and Lorna and the three children – have rented a house at the Beach. But Lorna is bored and only sees her husband on the weekends. When the handsome James Clements gets the ...