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The New Chalet School

BRENT-DYER, ELINOR M. · 1981 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,705)

UK, Amada Books, UK. 1981. Paperback with dust jacket, 18 Cm. Book, green pencil 1st page - all others 100%. plot > The Chalet School and St Scholastika's become a single school after Miss Browne, the headmistress of St Scholastika's wins a law-suit and retires. She offers her s…

The Committee. A Comedy.

HOWARD (Sir Robert): · 1728 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London Printed for the Company, no date [c. 1728]. 12mo, 152 x 95 mms., pp. [4] 5 - 96], recently recased in quarter brown morocco, cream boards, gilt spine; title-page a little soiled, but a good copy. The playwright and politician Sir Robert Howard (1626–1698) seems to have …

It Can't Go On

Joseph Connolly · 2000 · Book Haven

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

Faber & Faber 2000 Paperback, 334pp. ""Jeremy's wife, Anne, is adamant that he leaves immediately - and in her haste sacks the nanny of their two children under the misapprehension that she is the cause of her maritial woes. Nan, the nanny, is cast adrift and enters into new liv…

To Encourage The Others

David Yallop · 1990 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Corgi 1990 Paperback, 416pp. The murder case that shook a generationTo Encourage The OthersOn 2nd November 1952, two teenagers were trapped by police on a warehouse roof. In the course of what the national press were to describe as 'a Chicago-style gun battle', P. C. Sidney Mile…

Orpheus Lost

Janette Turner Hospital · 2007 · Book Haven

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

Fourth Estate 2007 Trade Paperback, 358pp. In the ancient myth, it is Orpheus who travels to the underworld to rescue his lover Eurydice from death. In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela May travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture and despair in se…

As Time Goes By: A Novel Of Casablanca

Michael Walsh · 1998 · Book Haven

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

Little, Brown 1998 Paperback, 418pp. The most famous ending in the history of the movies was just the beginning. Did Ilsa Lund and Victor Laszlo make it to America? What happened to Rick Blaine and Louis? Will Sam ever play it again? Are Rick and Ilsa reunited? What secret preve…

Modern Art And The Death Of A Culture

H. R Rookmaaker · 1970 · Book Haven

NZ$28.50 (€14.28 | $15.74 | £11.91 | ¥2,514)

Inter-Varsity Press 1970 Hardback, 256pp. "This disturbing but illuminating classic is a brilliant perspective on the cultural turmoil of the radical sixties and its impact on today's world, especially as reflected in the art of the time. Rookmaaker's enduring analysis looks at …

Cricket Country

Edmund Blunden · 1945 · Book Haven

NZ$9.50 (€4.76 | $5.25 | £3.97 | ¥838)

Imprint Society 1945 Hardback, 224pp. This beautiful green book will look excellent in any sports or game themed room! It begins with a poem all about cricket - Have you not ever felt the urge to write, Of all the cricket that has blessed your sight? Is there no inspiration in t…

Foreign Affairs

Alison Lurie · 1986 · Book Haven

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Sphere 1986 Paperback, 288pp. Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But …

Beautiful Wreck

Larissa Brown · 2014 · Book Haven

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Cooperative Press 2014 Paperback, 446pp. In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings. But when her project goes awry, she's stranded in the actual 10th century, on a s…

Between Sky & Sea

Herz Bergner · 2016 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Text Publishing 2016 Paperback, 240pp. A group of Jewish refugees are thrown together on board a dilapidated freighter charting a course for Australia. Fleeing terrible scenes of destruction in Europe, they are bound by a deep sense of loss and the uncertainty of their fate. As …

Room

Emma Donoghue · 2011 · Book Haven

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Pan Macmillan 2011 Paperback, 336pp. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to b…

The Impressionist

Hari Kunzru · 2002 · Book Haven

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

Not Specified 2002 Paperback, 496pp. This is the extraordinary story of a child conceived in a wild monsoon night, a boy destined to be an outsider, a man with many names and no name. Born into luxury but disinherited and cast out onto the streets of Agra, Pran Nath must become …

Love in Another Town

Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1996 · Book Haven

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HarperCollins (UK) 1996 Paperback, 208pp. As he approaches his twenty-ninth birthday, Jake Cantrell feels that his life has completely stalled. Saddened and disappointed by the failure of his marriage to Amy, his childhood sweetheart, wanting to put more distance between them an…

A Thief in the Night: Death of Pope John Paul I

John Cornwell · 1990 · Book Haven

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Penguin Books Ltd 1990 Paperback, 416pp. On the eve of September 28, 1978, Pope John Paul I died unexpectedly-apparently of a heart attack-after a reign of only thirty-three days. Within the Vatican there were serious disagreements about the time of death, who found the body, an…

The Paua Tower

Coral E. Atkinson · 2006 · Book Haven

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Black Swan 2006 Paperback, 312pp. Set in a pivotal moment in our history, this love story is about how we once were, or might have been. A tarot-reading Frenchwoman and a paua-shell memorial to a dead soldier play an important role in this gritty love story. Set in a central Nor…

Swept Aside

Sharon Sala · 2010 · Book Haven

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Mira 2010 Paperback, 400pp. Shell-shocked after a nightmarish school shooting, Amalie Pope retreats to an aging plantation house near Bordelaise, Louisiana, to heal, physically and emotionally. She's there barely an hour when a tornado rips through bayou country, mercifully leav…

Pacific

Judy Nunn · 2005 · Book Haven

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Random House Australia 2005 Paperback, 661pp. After fulfilling her dream of performing on the London stage, Australian actress Samantha Lindsay is thrilled when she scores her first Hollywood movie role. She's to play Sarah Blackston, a character loosely based on World War II he…

The Broken Shore

Peter Temple · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$16.50 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,456)

The Text Publishing Company 2009 Paperback, 352pp. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction (Australia)Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then. He was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they in…

The Impressionist

Hari Kunzru · 2002 · Book Haven

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

Not Specified 2002 Paperback, 496pp. This is the extraordinary story of a child conceived in a wild monsoon night, a boy destined to be an outsider, a man with many names and no name. Born into luxury but disinherited and cast out onto the streets of Agra, Pran Nath must become …