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Signs Of Life

Amy Head · 2023

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023 Paperback Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald...

The Bicentennial Man

Isaac Asimov · 1980

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Panther Science Fiction 1980 Paperback 253 The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a science fiction anthology written and edited by Isaac Asimov. Following the usual form for Asimov collections, it consists of eleven short stories and a poem surrounded by commentary describ...

Dance Upon The Air: Number 1 In Series

Nora Roberts · 2010

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Piatkus 2010 Paperback 343 When Nell Channing arrives on Three Sisters Island, she dares to hope she's found refuge from the life of terror she has left behind. But even in this quiet sanctuary, Nell remains alert to danger. Concealing her true identity, she takes a job at the...

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke · 1974

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Pan Books 1974 Paperback 252 During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization. Tanning; spine creased;. Fair

Fragments of Labour

Bruce Jesson · 1989

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Penguin Books 1989 Paperback 160 The story behind the Labour government. Mild tanning. Very Good

New Zealand Food And Cookery

David Burton · 2009

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

David Bateman 2009 Paperback 320 An updated and revised edition of this classic work tracing the origins of a distinctive NZ cuisine. David Burton examines our taste in food, from Highlander condensed milk salad dressing and whitebait fritters to melting moments and Maori kiss...

Crime Story

Maurice Gee · 1994

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Penguin Books 1994 Paperback 272 Gift inscription on first page; tanned. Fair

On the Road

Jack Kerouac · 2008

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Penguin Books 2008 Paperback 300 Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' rocked the establishment with its seminal, stream-of-consciousness portrayal of 1950s underground America. Amidst a whirlwind of sex, drugs and jazz, writer Sal Paradise and his hero 'the holy con-man with the shini...

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 2010

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Penguin Books 2010 Paperback 368 This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of ...

Bleeding Hearts

Ian Rankin · 2001

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Orion 2001 Paperback 416 A shot rings out, the woman dies instantly. But she was not alone on the steps of the London hotel. A number of other people could also have been the intended target of the invisible sniper. But the assassin, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out hi...

Justice And The Maori: Maori Claims In New Zealand Political Argument In The 1980S

Andrew Sharp · 1990

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

Oxford University Press 1990 Paperback 310 "Should the Maori be compensated for past wrongs at the hands of the Pakeha? Should special programmes be set up which treat Maori and Pakeha differently? Or should there be one law, one mode of treatment, and justice for all? This bo...

Stark

Ben Elton · 2001

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Warner Books 2001 Paperback 458 A black comedy about the environment: The world's richest and least scrupulous people are plotting deep in Western Australia. Ecoaction, a loose confederacy of misfits and losers, want to stop them. Mild foxing. Fair

Tess Of The D'urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1973

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Collins 1973 Hardback 448 Tess of the D'Urbervilles is probably Thomas Hardy's most famous novel. Set in the West of England, in a beautifully described rural landscape, it tells the tragic story of Tess Durbeyfield, an innocent village girl who is seduced by a wealthy rake, A...

The Single Helix: A Turn Around The World Of Science

Steve Jones · 2005

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Little, Brown 2005 Hardback 321 DJ. DJ a little rubbed. Good

Five Weeks In A Balloon And Around The World In Eighty Days

Jules Verne · 1950

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

J. M. Dent & Sons Hardback 412 Set in the mid-19th century, this gripping tale follows the daring expedition of Dr. Fergusson and his companions as they soar above the African continent in a hydrogen balloon of their own invention. From the bustling streets of Zanzibar to the...

Island

Aldous Huxley · 1969

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Heron Books 1969 Hardback 279 In his prescient vision of the 21st century, Huxley explores Buddhist ideology, nuclear threat and ‘big oil’ corporate greed. For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabi...

The Poet's Corner

Max Beerbohm · 1943

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

King Penguin 1943 Hardback 24 No DJ. Foxing to page edges; shop label on first page; cover a little worn. Good

Eros And Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud

Herbert Marcuse · 1970

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Sphere Books Ltd 1970 Paperback 219 Foxing to page edges. Good

Ice Station Zebra

Alistair MacLean · 1963

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Collins 1963 Hardback 255 DJ. Second Impression August 1963; DJ in poor condition with piece missing bottom of spine DJ and tears on front and back; foxing to text block edges; School prize certificate dated 1963 on first page. Fair

Power Without Glory

Frank Hardy · 1982

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Angus & Robertson 1982 Paperback 671 In the history of Australian literature few books have been so controversial than Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory. This is a tale of corruption stretching from street corner SP bookmaking to the most influential men in the land - and the ...