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A History of Silence - A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The 2011 earthquake which shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, ...Show more
Biografi by Lloyd Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Biografiis an imaginative melding of travelogue and fable that sparked controversy on its release. When Lloyd Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist who looked like the dictator and had been forced to give up his identity a ...Show more
Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szablowski; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
15.00 NZD
38.00 (60% off)
Category: History
'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.' Tim Flannery I used to bottle-feed my father's two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong--the baby drank from the bear's bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Lloyd Jones, author of the bestselling Mister Pip, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has delivered a poignant tale of a mother's quest to be united with her child. Hand Me Down World tells the story of a nameless Afric ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from North Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers - some generous, some exploiting - to guide ...Show more
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. This is where Louise and Schmidt's story begins, with a backward step. Intertwining two love stories across three generations, the Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip takes us to Buenos Aires, New Zealand and Sydney. ...Show more
High Wire (Korero Series) by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
45.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Korero Series 1
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
Little Red Riding Hood (Usborne Jigsaw) by Rob Lloyd Jones
23.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Usborne Book and Jigsaw
Little Red Riding Hood is off to visit her Grandma, but following her through the forest is a very hungry wolf... This beautiful 30-piece jigsaw and picture book are both gorgeously illustrated by Lorena Alvarez. A superb combination of reading and interaction, and a delightful way for children to enjoy ...Show more
Little Transfer Book Pirates by Rob Lloyd Jones
13.00 NZD
Category: Activity books | Series: Little Transfer
This exciting little book provides full-colour scenes ready to be decorated with rub-down transfers and pages to colour as well. Featuring a pirate treasure hunt, a shipwreck deep beneath the sea and pirates attacking a merchant ship. Includes sheets of rub-down transfers (supplied in a pocket at the ba ...Show more
Look Inside Cars (Lift-the-Flap Board Book) by Rob Lloyd Jones
23.00 NZD
Category: Board Books | Series: Look Inside
Fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about cars, from how they the first automobiles were invented, to how speedy racing cars get around tracks. Each of the seven double-page spreads have several flaps to lift, many with double flaps, and several of them also have fun paper technolo ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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 by Lloyd Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007! Winner of Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction 2007. An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author. Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up ...Show more