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Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
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
Pacific Highways: Griffith Review 43 by Lloyd Jones & Julianne Schultz (eds)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: Griffith Review
Migration, demographic changes and new cultural references are reshaping New Zealand. It is fast becoming a hub where Pacific and Tasman currents meet. As a result, New Zealand is changing, in response to surging tides of people and ideas. Pacific Highways explores and maps the new New Zealand, in the w ...Show more
Paint Your Wife by Lloyd Jones
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Long ago, when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting the women of the town. They sat for him in lieu of payment for his work catching rats. Alice, his favourite, returned his attentions, and when her husband, George, came home from the war, he set out to prove his love and reclaim his wife b ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: History
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...Show more
The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A glorious novel from the award-winning author of Mister Pip, now available as a trade paperback original from Vintage Canada. The Book of Fame is a lyrical semi-fictional account of the 1905 All Black rugby tour of Europe - a tour that shaped New Zealand's identity, from which the players returned to f ...Show more
The Book of Fame (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The Book of Fame won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 2001 Montana Book Awards and the Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize in 2003. In 1905 a motley group of young New Zealand rugby players sets out by steamer on a journey to the other side of the world. A year later most of them are back. Bearing scars of ...Show more
The Cage by Lloyd Jones
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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: NZ Fiction
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 Man in the Shed - Stories by Lloyd Jones
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed ...Show more