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24 Hours in Space by Rob Lloyd Jones
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: 24 Hours In...
Daily life on the International Space Station shown in lively comic strip.Join an astronaut for a day as she goes on her first ever spacewalk, and new crew members arrive. Find out how she trained for her mission and what it's like living and working in space. How do you eat and drink at zero gravity? H ...Show more
High Wire (Korero Series) by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Korero Series 1 | Reading Level: very good
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrator ...Show more
Me, My Brother and the Monster Meltdown by Rob Lloyd Jones
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Comedy chaos breaks loose when two brothers’ imaginary monsters come to life – in the supermarket! A laugh-out-loud adventure for fans of Dogman, the Treehouse series and Pamela Butchart books. All the adults are freaking out. Giant monsters are smashing up supermarkets across the country. The army can’ ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007 Winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction 2007 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007 Winner of the Kiriyama Writers' Prize 2008 Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Matilda attends the ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
The Cage by Lloyd Jones
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two mysterious strangers appear at a hotel in a small country town. Where have they come from? Who are they? What catastrophe are they fleeing? The townspeople want answers, but the strangers are unable to speak of their trauma. And before long, wary hospitality shifts to suspicion and fear, and the car ...Show more
The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the leg ...Show more
The Fish by Lloyd Jones
$36.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Another powerful, innovative and unique novel from the extraordinary author of the Man-Booker shortlisted Mr Pip. Then she lifts the Fish up from the basinet and holds him out to me. 'Go on, take him.' And to the Fish she says, 'This is your uncle.' It is a bit like catching a hastily thrown ball. She l ...Show more
The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz; Antonia Lloyd-Jones
$39.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
From a "master of verbal burlesque and a connoisseur of psychological blackmail" (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz's harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation. Witold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland's greatest modernist, and in Th ...Show more
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