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First World War Poems by ANDREW MOTION (ed)
45.00 NZD
49.95 (9% off)
Category: Poetry
The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous s ...Show more
In the Blood : A memoir of my childhood by Andrew Motion
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written from a teenage child's point of view, "Motion" captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory. We encounter a strange but beguiling extended family, a profound love of the natural world, a troubled schooling, and a growing passion for boo ...Show more
John Keats by John Keats, Andrew Motion (edited by)
15.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three volumes of verse to an unreceptive critical response. But as the nineteenth century wore on Keats's reputation ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Think of the fortune waiting for you. July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Island is n ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, ...Show more
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
It is July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of c ...Show more
The Customs House by Andrew Motion
36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent ...Show more
The Invention of Dr Cake by Andrew Motion
23.00 NZD
27.99 (17% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, poet laureate, has wriiten a novel about poets and their afterlife.
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