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Poems By Alexander Pushkin (Worldwide Classics)

Alexander Pushkin · 2018

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US 2018 Paperback 186 Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. His matrilineal great-grandfather was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem a...

Strong Words: Poetry In A Russian And English Edition

Anna Akhmatova and Alexander Pushkin and Andrei Voznesnsky · 2013

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

Exile Editions Ltd 2013 Paperback 154 Celebrating three Russian literary greats--Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesensky--this collection of their writing presents new translations of a combined 44 poems and includes both Russian and English text. Nearly 20 a...

What Is Left Behind

Tom Weston · 2017

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Steele Roberts Aotearoa 2017 Softcover 76 If Allen Curnow was the stony and austere godhead of New Zealand literary modernism, then Tom Weston (along with his close contemporary David Howard) are tending to the altar, counting the mala beads, and ensuring the continuation of t...

The Lost Dove: A Story For All Time

Eliane Wilson · 1998

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Element 1998 Hardback 119 As the Council of Doves is convened, doves from around the world fly out of paintings, break out of stained glass windows, fly off mosaics and tapestries, and break out of manuscripts to search for the mystical Lost Dove of Peace. DJ. Very Good

The Unwilling

John Hart · 2022

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Zaffre 2022 Paperback 374 From John Hart, the twice-Edgar award winning US crime writing giant, The Unwilling is an exploration of family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave on a community. [Bokinfo]. Spine a little wrinkled, otherwise very good....

Love Stories

Trent Dalton · 2023

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2023 Hardback 352 Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mothe...

Fix It: How To Do All Those Little Repair Jobs Around Your Home

Scott McGregor · 2008

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Allen & Unwin 2008 Paperback 324 'Fix It' is full of essential information on everything from removing wallpaper, putting up shelves and hanging pictures to sorting out leaky pipes, restoring and repairing furniture and putting down floorboards. All these tasks are described w...

The Day Of The Jackal

Frederick Forsyth · 2011

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Arrow 2011 Paperback 411 One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late. It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the O. A. S. to ...

365 Days Of Mindfulness

Yvette Jane · 2012

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Summersdale 2012 Hardback A book of spiritual quotations and ideas that will rejuvanate your mind 365 days a year "Every breath is an opportunity to receive and let go. I receive love and I let go of pain." —Brenda MacIntyre Create a moment of mindfuless every day with this bo...

The Uses Of Enchantment: The Meaning And Importance Of Fairy Tales

Bruno Bettelheim · 1977

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Vintage Books 1977 Paperback 328 Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean? In this award-winnin...

The Decameron : Selected Tales

Giovanni Boccaccio · 2011

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Dover 2011 Paperback 169 While the Black Death rages through fourteenth-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, a lan...

The Tip Shop

James Brown · 2023

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023 Softcover You pick one up at the Tip Shop: oblivion's final sieve meets your lucky day. James Brown shakes out oblivion's final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally e...

Real Modern: Everyday New Zealand In The 1950s And 1960s

Bronwyn Labrum · 2015

$29.00 (€26.31 | £21.95 | ¥4,631)

Te Papa Press 2015 Hardback 416 The decades of the 1950s and 60s continue to exert a powerful fascination, and in New Zealand, these postwar years have been remembered in popular culture as a golden age. But what was life really like? Real Modern tells a vibrant and varied sto...

Fleur: The Life And Times Of Pioneering Restauranteur Fleur Sullivan

Natalie Brown and Fleur Sullivan · 2011

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,954)

Random House NZ 2011 Paperback 258 The memoir of the characterful restaurateur and national treasure. Fleur Sullivan is a South Island legend, the culinary maven responsible for not one but two iconic local restaurants Olivers in Clyde and the eponymous Fleurs Place in Moeraki...

The Past Today - Historic Places in New Zealand

John Wilson · 1987

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Published for the New Zealand Historic Places Trus 1987 Hardback 183 New Zealand's story began at least ten centuries ago and this book encompasses not only significant buildings of European settlement but also places of a traditional emotional and spiritual importance to the ...

Daughters of the House

Michele Roberts · 1993

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Virago Press Ltd 1993 Paperback 192 Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid old Normandy house where Therese and Leonie, French and English cousins, grow up after the war. Intrigued by adults' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the gir...

As Beautiful As Any Other: a Memoir of My Body

Kaya Wilson · 2021

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Picador 2021 Paperback 289 'When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. This is a trans story. 'As Bea...

Love, Simon

Becky Albertalli · 2018

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

Penguin Books Ltd 2018 Paperback 342 Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackma...

Reach for the Skies

Richard Branson · 2010

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Virgin Books Limited 2010 Paperback 288 As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toy...

Breathe: a Novel

Jackie Davis · 2002

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Penguin 2002 Paperback 220 As we gather for a family funeral, Breathelures us cautiously into a time past. It is through the unguarded impressions of the nine-year-old narrator that we experience a world of 'good girls', classical music, childhood games, longed-for dreams and ...