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Now We Are Sixty (And A Bit)

Christopher Matthew · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)

John Murray Publishers 2003 Hardback, 112pp. Barely had the first copies of Christopher Matthew's 'Now We Are Sixty' landed in the bookshops when people started to ask when he was going to write a sequel. To his surprise the temptation to try his hand at a few more poems (partic…

About a Boy

Nick Hornby · 2002 · Book Haven

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

Penguin (UK) 2002 Paperback, 288pp. Will is thirty-six acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women - at single parents' groups, full of available mothers, all w…

Remembering Babylon

David Malouf · 1993 · Book Haven

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

Chatto & Windus 1993 Hardback, 202pp. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settle…

Wayfaring Stranger

James Lee Burke · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Orion Publishing Group, Limited 2015 Paperback. When 16-year-old Weldon Avery Holland encounters the notorious Bonnie and Clyde in his Texas hometown, the course of his young life is altered forever. He dedicates himself to fighting evil wherever he finds it. But it's the 1930s …

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz · 2008 · Book Haven

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

Faber and Faber 2008 Paperback, 400pp. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican …

Dads Are The Original Hipsters

Brad Getty · 2012 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Chronicle Books 2012 Softcover. He listened to vinyl before you did. He drank whiskey before you did. He had a mustache before you did. Admit it: your dad was a hipster before you were! Based on the blog phenomenon of the same name, this book celebrates dads as the original hips…

Like Smoke In A Wheelbarrow: Poems & Other Dramatisations

Martyn Sanderson · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Steele Roberts 2006 Softcover, 117pp. "Born in Westport, Martyn Sanderson read English at Oxford, taught briefly, studied for the priesthood, dropped out, came home to New Zealand and helped to found Downstage Theatre. He first appeared on the literary scene with eleven poems in…

Jim Thompson: The Legendary American of Thailand

William Warren · 1988 · Book Haven

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

Jim Thompson Thai Silk 1988 Paperback, 262pp. American businessman, James H. W. Thompson, on Easter Sunday, in 1967, went for a stroll in the mountains of Central Malaysia. He was never seen again. Various theories have since been advanced, including one that states he was actua…

The Truth And Other Lies

Sascha Arango · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Text Publishing Company 2015 Paperback, 240pp. Famous bestselling author, loving husband, generous friend—Henry Hayden is a pleasant person to have around. Or so it seems. And when his mistress, who is also his editor, becomes pregnant, his carefully constructed life threatens t…

The Widower's Tale

Julia Glass · 2011 · Book Haven

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Anchor 2011 Trade Paperback, 480pp. Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn.…

Artemis Fowl 3 - the Eternity Code

Eoin Colfer · 2009 · Book Haven

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Hyperion 2009 Paperback 320 Artemis Fowl is going straight. As soon as he pulls off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career. At least, that's the plan when he attempts to sell his C Cube, a supercomputer built from stolen fairy technology. When his efforts to broker a dea…

The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 2000 · Book Haven

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

Coronet Books 2000 Paperback, 608pp. If anyone knows Death, Penn Cage does. He, himself, has sent 16 men to their fate as District Attorney, and killed one by his own hand. And now his beautiful young wife is gone too, leaving him alone with their young daughter. He decides to g…

A Clouded Peace

John Cole · 2002 · Book Haven

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Orion 2002 Paperback, 272pp. John Cole is one of the most loved of all British TV personalities, as the bestselling sales in hardback and paperback of his autobiography proved. It has long been his ambition to write fiction - this is the result.It is the story of Alan Houston, a…

Girl 4

Will Carver · 2011 · Book Haven

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Random House 2011 Paperback, 304pp. Detective Inspector January David has always put his professional before his private life, but the two worlds are about to clash horrifically as he visits his latest crime scene. He is confronted by a lifeless figure suspended ten feet above a…

A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe

Robert Cullen · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

HarperPerennial 2002 Paperback, 400pp. Bobby Jobe is a pro golfer whose swing is better than his attitude. When he bogies the last four holes and blows his lead in a major tournament -- again -- he berates his caddy, Henry 'Greyhound' Mote. Jobe loses both Greyhound, who walks o…

Whispers on the Water

Audrey Howard · 2002 · Book Haven

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Coronet Books 2002 Paperback, 544pp. Grace Tooley falls for Rupert Bradley when she is young, but he sees her as a mere girl and marries a woman from his own station in life. They meet again when the Great War has changed them both. Grace has suffered loss and pain and emerged a…

Crusaders

Richard T. Kelly · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.69 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Faber and Faber 2008 Paperback, 500pp. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Autumn 1996, and things can only get better _ or so believes the Reverend John Gore bound for the North-East after a decade_s absence, charged with the mission of _planting_ a new church in the deprived West End of town…

"Quarry: A "Nameless Detective" Mystery"

Bill Pronzini · 1992 · Book Haven

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Delacorte Press 1992 Hardback, 232pp. "Old Man Hess is concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady. The young woman showed up at his doorstep a few days earlier, refusing to admit anything was wrong, and has been wandering around the farm, not talking, barely…

That Old Ace In The Hole

Annie Proulx · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Fourth Estate 2003 Paperback, 384pp. A richly textured story of one man\'s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor wit and a masterly sense of place. Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar, …

Jewish Characters in Israel. (SIGNED)

DAVID GILBOA. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Moed Ltd., Tel-Aviv [1958]., 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition of this suite of ten evocative colour paintings housed, alongside an introductory essay which the artist has signed, in a stiff cloth-backed decorated folder and original decorated card slipcase, this l…