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How To Escape From Prison. The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds

Paul Wood · 2019

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand 2019 Paperback 336 At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to prison for many years. To a young man like Paul, it might as well have been for the rest of his life. Plunged into a night...

Eating with the Angels

Sarah-Kate Lynch · 2004

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Random House 2004 Paperback 292 Eating means everything to Connie Farrell, she's a restaurant critic after all, so when her husband Tom fails to turn up on their second honeymoon in fairytale Venice she's rattled but she doesn't exactly lose her appetite. Quite the opposite, y...

The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson · 2009

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin (Non-Classics) 2009 Paperback 448 A richly original look at the origins of money and how it makes the world go 'round Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the l...

Fairburn

Denys Trussell · 1985

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Auckland University Press 1985 Paperback 320 By Denys Trussell. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 307-311. Heavy. Some tanning; glue visible on front hinge inside binding; some marks to top text block edge. Good

Plumb

Maurice Gee · 2000

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Penguin 2000 Paperback 264 Maurice Gee's acclaimed novel Plumb was the winner of the Wattie Book Award and the New Zealand Fiction Award. His brilliant picture of the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb is regarded as one of the very finest New Zealand novels. Foxing ...

Bird on a Wire: the Inside Story From a Straight Talking Ceo

Theresa Gattung · 2010

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Random House NZ 2010 Paperback 253 No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at such a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate w...

Sole Survivor

Maurice Gee · 1983

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Faber and Faber (UK) 1983 Hardback 231 "[This book] brings Maurice Gee's ... family chronicle up to the present day. The career of Duggie Plum (as ruthless in politics as in sex) is relayed to us ... by his journalist cousin, Raymond Sole. Raymond - known to his family as Raym...

The Book of Strange New Things

Michel Faber · 2014

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Canongate 2014 Paperback 585 The Book of Strange New Things by Dutch-born, English-speaking author Michel Faber is a science fiction novel about an English pastor, Peter Leigh, who is hired by American corporation USIC to teach the native population on a faraway planet called ...

Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates

Eva Gray · 2011

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Scholastic Inc. 2011 Paperback Ex Library, cover in plastic contact. Good

A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang

H. W. Orsman · 1999

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Oxford University Press 1999 Paperback 160 A dictionary of the informal language used by New Zealanders since about 1940, intended to be humorous yet authoritative. It draws on the historical detail of Orsman's 'Dictionary of New Zealand English', but includes many entries not...

Pacific Education Vol 1, No 1, 3rd Quarter 1987

1987

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Pacific Circle Consortium for Education 1987 Paperback 94 Good

Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship, Two Towers, Return of the King

J. R. R. Tolkien · 1993

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Houghton Mifflin 1993 Paperback Set of three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers; The Return of the King. Paperback with plastic dust jacket. Heavy. Djs sunned at the spine, vol 3 has small rip to top of spine. Slight edge foxing on all volumes. Good

Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities #3)

Shannon Messenger · 2020

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Simon & Schuster 2020 Paperback 640 The third book in the international bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Perfect for readers aged 9+ and fans of Harry Potter, Rick Riordan and Amari and the Night Brothers. Sophie Foster is ready to fight back. Her talents are gett...

Tom Jones

Henry Fielding · 1992

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1992 Paperback 768 A milestone in the history of the English novel, 'Tom Jones' draws readers into a world teeming with memorable characters. This epic of everyday life chronicles the adventures of Tom Jones, who was abandoned as an infant and grows int...

Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire

Derek Landy · 2008

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

HarperCollins Children's 2008 Paperback 351 Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yes. And dead. With Serpine dead, the world is safe once more. At least, that's what Valkyrie and Skulduggery think, until the notorious Baron Vengeous makes a bloody escape...

Rise Of The Isle Of The Lost (Disney Descendants Book 3)

Melissa De La Cruz · 2018

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Scholastic Australia 2018 Paperback 304 Deep beneath the waves, King Tritons powerful trident has passed through the magical barrier that surrounds the Isle of the Lostkeeping villains in and magic out. And when Mals longtime rival Uma, daughter of Ursula, gets wind of this, s...

The Snakes Of Europe

J. W. Steward · 1971

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

David and Charles 1971 Hardback 238 DJ. DJ a little bumped at edges. Good

The Last Chronicle Of Barset - Volume Two

Anthony Trollope · 1969

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Heron Books 1969 Hardback 383 No DJ As Issued. Good

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope · 1968

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Heron Books 1968 Hardback 567 No DJ As Issued. Good

100 Most Beautiful Squares Of The World - A Journey Around 5 Contintents

Anne Benthues · 2006

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Rebo Productions 2006 Hardback 208 Large; DJ; Heavy. DJ frayed along top. Good