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Pacific Highways: Griffith Review 43 by Lloyd Jones & Julianne Schultz (eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: General 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: 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
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepo ...Show more
Second World War (Usborne See Inside) by Rob Lloyd Jones
$23.50 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Usborne See Inside
This is a brilliant new historical addition to the "See Inside" series, looking closely at the vehicles and major events that defined the Second World War as one of the most destructive wars in history. Lifting the flaps reveals the insides of some of the military vehicles used during campaigns includin ...Show more
Shakespeare Sticker Book by Rob Lloyd Jones
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Sticker Books
A zany new sticker book which allows children to tread the boards and learn about William Shakespeare with these hilarious sticker scenes.
Skip to the Loo!: A Potty Book (Board Book) by Sally Lloyd-Jones; Anita Jeram
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children
Now in a board book edition with a fun mirror on the final page. Lloyd-Jones's rollicking, rhythmic narration gets the party going in a book that simply rejoices in the call of nature.
String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
An imaginative, tight, edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller which follows an historical mystery through to its nail-biting contemporary conclusion. Present Day: Cadair Idris, Snowdonia. Hannah Wilde flees to Llyn Gwyr, a remote mountain farmhouse, her husband bleeding to death on the passenger seat b ...Show more
The Ancient World (Usborne See Inside) by Rob Lloyd Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Usborne See Inside
A fascinating flap book packed with interesting information about the Ancient World, from the dawn of civilization in Ancient Egypt, to the rise of the great Mayan culture in Central America. Look inside an Egyptian temple, open the doors of ancient Chinese houses, and find out what goes on behind the w ...Show more
The Book of Fame by Lloyd Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
$29.99 NZD
Category: 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 | 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
$39.99 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