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The Fraud

Zadie Smith · 2023

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

Penguin Books 2023 Paperback, 464pp. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, ...

Home Theatre

Anthony Lapwood · 2023

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,794)

Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023 Paperback 240 Welcome to the Repertory Apartments-where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages. A mother and her young son battle an infestation of ants. A bass player is ...

The Invisible Mile

David Coventry · 2016

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Victoria University Press 2016 Paperback. (ISBN: 9781776560431). Very Good.

Land From The Masthead: A Circumnavigation Of New Zealand In The Wake Of Captain Cook

Philip Houghton · 1968

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

Hodder & Stoughton (Australia) in association with 1968 Hardback. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector\'s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightl...

Pools pilot or Why not you?

A P Herbert · 1955

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Methuen & Co 1955 Hardback, 155pp. How to win on the football pools.. DJ; Price clipped. DJ worn and torn, book foxed otherwise good. Good.

Soho

Simon Dewes and John Muriel · 1952

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.74 | ¥1,632)

Rich and Cowan 1952 Hardback, 236pp. Tales of the great days of Soho, visiting the streets where people such as the Duke of Monmouth, Hazlitt and de Quincy lived and worked. DJ. DJ torn and worn, book slightly foxed otherwise good. (ISBN: 9787250010386). Good.

Uncle Remus: Old Negro Slave Tales : Retold In Easy Words Chiefly Of One Syllable

Joel Chandler Harris · 1948

NZ$48.50 (€24.31 | $26.80 | £20.28 | ¥4,278)

J. Coker 1948 Hardback. Collection of American folk tales. DJ; Large. DJ worn and torn, book foxed but readable. Fair.

Wildflowers Of Western Australia

Simon Nevill · 2007

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.74 | ¥1,632)

Simon Nevill Publications 2007 Paperback, 63pp. Within this book the reader will find listed some of the major plant families of Western Australia and contained in these family groups are shown some of the representative genera and species. Beautifully illustrated with vibrant...

Gendered Speech In Social Context: Perspectives From Gown And Town

Janet Holmes · 2000

NZ$50.00 (€25.07 | $27.63 | £20.91 | ¥4,410)

Victoria University Press 2000 Paperback, 292pp. First Edition. Inscription from editor to owner on first page. (ISBN: 9780864734020). Very Good.

Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature & Culture

Marina Warner · 2003

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Chatto & Windus 2003 Hardback, 516pp. From a highly original and profound commentator on the culture of the past and present comes this superb 25-year retrospective collection of her finest essays on fiction, drama, religion and fairy-tale. DJ; Heavy. (ISBN: 9780701173326). Ve...

All Over Creation

Ruth L. Ozeki · 2002

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Pan Macmillan 2002 Paperback, 560pp. (ISBN: 9780330490283). Very Good.

Celandine

Steve Augarde · 2005

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

David Fickling Books 2005 Paperback, 486pp. The second book in the trilogy follows the adventures of young Celandine at the onset of the First World War. Having run away from her detested boarding school, Celandine is too afraid to go home in case she is sent back. As she seek...

The Various

Steve Augarde · 2003

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

David Fickling Books 2003 Hardback, 447pp. A gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, and her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairie...

The Prince Of Whales An Intimate Portrait Of The Man Born To Be King

Jonathan Dimbleby · 1994

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

HarperCollins Publishers 1994 Hardback, 620pp. For this remarkable study of the heir to the throne, Jonathan Dimbleby was given unprecedented access to his subject. As well as spending many hours in wide-ranging and candid conversation with Prince Charles, the author has inter...

IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, And Belonging In Our Digital Lives

Chris Stedman · 2020

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Broadleaf Books 2020 Hardback, 331pp. IRL, Chris Stedman\'s personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness--who we are and where we fit in the world--can be freshly understood in our increasingly online li...

The Boys Of Everest The Tragic Story Of Climbing\'s Greatest Generation

Clint Willis · 2008

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

Pavilion Books 2008 Paperback, 570pp. The Boys of Everest\', which received enormous praise when published in hardback, tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest\'s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous coura...

Darwin Retired : An Appeal To Reason

Norman Macbeth · 1971

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

Dell 1971 Paperback, 178pp. Darwin Retried: An Appeal to Reason is a 1971 book by Harvard-trained lawyer Norman Macbeth that critically examines the arguments of classical Darwinism. The book, which has 178 pages, argues that the theory of evolution by natural selection was no...

Bright Interlude: Some Account Of What We Did, All Six Of Us, At The Seaside

Herbert Leslie Gee · 1949

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Epworth 1949 Hardback, 271pp. An account of a family holiday in Sandbourne. DJ; Owner\'s Name inside. Owner\'s name inside, dated 1949. Fair.

The Planter\'s Guide To Plants & Flowers

John Beckett and Kenneth A. Beckett and John Brookes and Valerie Swane · 1987

NZ$23.50 (€11.78 | $12.99 | £9.83 | ¥2,073)

Doubleday 1987 Paperback, 272pp. Illustrated with plenty of charts and lists to assist Australian gardeners. Large; Heavy. (ISBN: 9780868242866). Good.

Healthy Concerns: Sociology For New Zealand Nursing And Midwifery Students

Jenny Carryer and Lesley Patterson and Allanah Ryan · 2003

NZ$33.50 (€16.79 | $18.51 | £14.01 | ¥2,955)

Pearson Education New Zealand Limited 2003 Paperback, 188pp. ""Healthy Concerns" introduces students to a range of sociological aproaches to health and illness. Although written with nursing and midwifery students in mind, other students in the social services will find this a...