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Points Unknown by DAVID ROBERTS (ed)
39.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Outside Ser.
This anthology of the best adventure writing to emerge from the 20th century includes such adventures as a freezing winter ascent of Mount McKinley, a journey across the vastness of Arabia's Empty Quarter and experiencing the impossibly thin air at Everest's summit.
Pooh! Is That You, Bertie? (Sound Book) by David Roberts
11.99 NZD
13.00 (7% off)
Category: Picture Books | Series: A Very Noisy Picture Book | Reading Level: From 3
Bertie can be a bit smelly! When he trumps it makes his mum cross, embarrasses his dad, upsets his gran and offends his sister. But they all have a secret, and Bertie knows it! This hilarious book with trumping noises will delight all children with its wonderfully naughty noise!
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
45.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
With the grand sweep and scale of a Bollywood movie, Shantaram is unlike any other Australian novel for quite some time âÃÂæ this is a rip-roaring read. At 933 pages the book stands out, but it is all the more remarkable because it is based on second-to-none first-hand experience. Full of jail-h ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
COMING TO TV IN OCTOBER Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In J ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
He was Australia's most wanted man. Now he's written Australia's most wanted novel. Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unio ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
59.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. 'Shantaram' is not so much a mirror as a mirror ball, spinning with relentless drive, dazzling bu ...Show more
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World: Four Against the Arctic by David Roberts
28.00 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
While reading Valerian Albanov's In The Land Of White Death David Roberts came across an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive for six years on Svalbard in the high Arctic. Incredulous, Roberts - an expert on exploration literature - determined to learn the truth abou ...Show more
Sleeping Beauty: A Mid-Century Fairy Tale (HB) by David Roberts
29.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Retold Fairytales
Young Annabel lives in the 1950s and dreams of a future with jetpacks, flying cars and robots. However, little does she know that she is living under an evil spell that could mean she has no future at all...When the curse is fulfilled on her 16th birthday and she falls asleep for 1000 years, her house i ...Show more
Talent Thief : An extraordinary tale of an ordinary boy by Alex Williams (illus David Roberts)
17.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Wealthy orphans Adam and Cressida Bloom couldn't be less alike. Adam can't seem to help being exceedingly ordinary whereas Cressida, his glamorous sister, has a magnificent talent - when she sings, even the birds stop to listen. Then Cressida is invited to perform at Fortescue's festival of young talent ...Show more
Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley; David A. Roberts (Illustrator)
16.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Tales of Terror Ser.
A follow up to Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, this is another creepy middle grade story collection with a chilling frame. This time, the stories are all tales of the sea: pirates and plagues and storms a plenty...
Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth by Chris Priestley; David A. Roberts (Illustrator)
16.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Tales of Terror Ser.
Robert Harper is going back to school, and it is the first railway journey he has ever made alone. And it is not a very usual sort of railway journey. The train stops at the tunnel's mouth and in order to help whileaway the time, a strange woman dressed in white tells Robert stories. But these are not ...Show more