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Anthem

Tim Binding · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Picador 2003 Paperback, 406pp. In 1952, in London's last great fog, a small boy, Henry Armstrong, is separated from his mother. Thirty years later, as a bandsman in the Royal Marines and bound for the Falklands, he still has not found her. Meanwhile, the life of Henry's childhoo…

The Hero's Walk

Anita Rau Badami · 2002 · Book Haven

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Bloomsbury Publishing 2002 Paperback. Sripathi Rao's life is as arid as the dusty South Indian town where he lives. All he ever wanted was an ordinary life with a solid job and a happy family. But Sripathi has never been a lucky man. Now ageing and disenchanted, struggling to ke…

Depression And How To Survive It

Anthony Clare and Spike Milligan · 1994 · Book Haven

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

Arrow 1994 Paperback, 224pp. In 1982 leading psychiatrist and TV presenter Anthony Clare interviewed Spike Milligan for the radio series 'In The Psychiatrist's Chair', a show in which Clare led revealing interviews with a range of celebrities. He was so overwhelmed by Milligan's…

The Good German

Joseph Kanon · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Sphere 2007 Paperback, 528pp. Jake Geismar cut his teeth as a foreign correspondent in pre-war Berlin. When he returns in 1945 to cover the Potsdam conference he finds the city unrecognisable - streets have vanished beneath the rubble, familiar landmarks truncated by high explos…

The Good, the Bad And the Little Bit Stupid

Marina Lewycka · 2020 · Book Haven

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

Fig Tree 2020 Paperback, 272pp. 'George Pantis is in a pickle. After walking out on his wife Rosie on Referendum night 2016 to shack up with hairdresser 'Brexit Brenda' next door, he thinks he's got it made especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he only vaguely re…

Brilliant Outsider

Robert Wainwright · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

ABC Books 2017 Paperback, 421pp. George Ingle Finch, mountaineer, soldier, scientist, rebellious spirit, boy from the bush, was in his day one of the most famous men in the world. In 1922 he stood at the highest point on Everest, a feat not bettered for 30 years. He invented the…

Lost luggage

John Punti · 2013 · Book Haven

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Short Books 2013 Paperback. Christof, Christophe, Christopher, and Cristfol are four brothers sons of the same father and four very different mothers yet none of them knows of the others existence. They live in four different cities: Frankfurt, Paris, London, and Barcelona. Unbe…

Prince Rupert: Portrait Of A Soldier (Bibliography & Memoirs)

Frank Kitson · 1996 · Book Haven

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

Constable 1996 Softcover, 320pp. The story of Prince Rupert of the Rhine is the romantic and colourful story of an extraordinary military commander. His father was the Winter King of Bohemia, who had lost his kingdom at the beginning of the Thirty Years War; Rupert spent his ear…

Uhuru's Fire. African literature East to South

Adrian A. Roscoe · 1977 · Book Haven

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Cambridge University Press 1977 Paperback, 281pp. First published in 1977, this is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author examines work in verse, prose and drama, and discusses vernacular language problem…

Solo

Rana Dasgupta · 2009 · Book Haven

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Fourth Estate 2009 Paperback 368 A blind chemist lives alone in Sofia. He is old - he has witnessed a whole century of Bulgarian war and setback - and the years have proved a disappointment. Wondering if he has anything to leave the world, Ulrich immerses himself in a spectacula…

The Pale North

Hamish Clayton · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

Penguin Group (nz), Auckland 2015 Paperback, 224pp. 1998, Wellington. A series of catastrophic earthquakes has left the city destroyed. Returning to the ruin from London, a New Zealand writer explores the devastation, compelled to find out for himself what has become of the city…

Ashes To Ashes

Tami Hoag · 1999 · Book Haven

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Bantam 1999 Paperback, 593pp. He performs his profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn’t talking. Enter Kate C…

Flesh And Blood

Jonathan Kellerman · 2002 · Book Haven

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Headline (UK) 2002 Paperback, 566pp. When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents - which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. But after only a few ses…

Lost luggage

John Punti · 2013 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Short Books 2013 Paperback. Christof, Christophe, Christopher, and Cristfol are four brothers sons of the same father and four very different mothers yet none of them knows of the others existence. They live in four different cities: Frankfurt, Paris, London, and Barcelona. Unbe…

Opium

Salar Abdoh · 2004 · Book Haven

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

Faber 2004 Paperback, 302pp. Opium is the story of a world-weary young American who has spent a substantial part of his thirty-something years in the Middle East. Formerly a low-level drug-runner along the Afghan/Iran border, he is now living in New York and keeping a low profil…

The Bad Place

Dean Koontz · 1991 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Feature 1991 Paperback, 512pp. Frank Pollard awakens in an alley, knowing nothing but his name and that he is in danger. Over the next few days he develops a fear of sleep because when he wakes he finds blood on his hands and bizarre and terrifying objects in his pockets. Distra…

The Wilt Alternative

Tom Sharpe · 1979 · Book Haven

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Pan 1979 Paperback, 219pp. Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those …

The Precipice

Ben Bova · 2001 · Book Haven

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New English Library Ltd 2001 Paperback, 448pp. Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space…

Mage the Hero Discovered, Vol. 3

WAGNER, MATT · 1988 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Norfolk, VA: The Donning Company, 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Graphic Novel. ISBN: 0898656168. Illustrated by Matt Wagner. Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are c…

The Boat House

GALLAGHER, STEPHEN · 1991 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

London, England: New English Library, 1991. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0450522288. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is notic…