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Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell; Alexander McCall Smith (Introduction by)
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
A witty romp through English Country-house life at its most delightfully absurd. At Rushwater House in West Barsetshire, Lady Emily Leslie and her family are entertaining an assortment of house guests, hangers-on, and French monarchists. Amid a perfect welter of rapturous embraces and moonlight madness, ...Show more
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-known character and motivations, as well as recounting the details of his extraordinary life. Wilfred Thes ...Show more
Wilfred Thesiger in Africa by Alexander Maitland
69.99 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
A unique collection of essays accompany Wilfred Thesiger's own personal photographs of the Africa he experienced as one of the world's most celebrated explorers. SIR WILFRED THESIGER, last of the great gentleman adventurers, was, in the words of David Attenborough, 'one of the very few people who in our ...Show more
Winning Streak #8 (Riders) by ALEXANDER
9.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Blake Kildare, Olympic showjumping hope and pony magazine pin-up, is giving a lecture and demonstration for the Sutton Valley Pony Club. Trouble brews when he starts being harassed by a fan and threatened by an Olympic rival. Ash and Alex are determined to find the source of the problem.
With All Despatch by Alexander Kent
24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A troubled peace with France means that in the harbours and estuaries around England, the royal fleet has been left to rot. Even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. As the clouds of war begin to rise once more o ...Show more
Your Inner Hedgehog: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment by Alexander McCall Smith
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Professor Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld Ser.
In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Maria Von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university and a possible hostile takeover, all while trying to remain studiously above it all.Professor Dr Dr Moritz-Mari ...Show more