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Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure by Alex Honnold, David Roberts
24.99 NZD
Category: Other Sports
Alex Honnold is one of the world's best 'free solo' climbers, he scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. Exhilarating, brilliant and dangerous, there is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but also impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, on ...Show more
Awful End (Eddie Dickens #1) by Philip Ardagh Illustrated by David Roberts
9.99 NZD
17.99 (44% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Eddie Dickens Trilogy S. | Reading Level: 8-10
When both of Eddie's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow and smell of hot-water bottles, it's agreed that he should go to stay with relatives at Awful End. Sadly for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud. The first book in the hilarious trilogy about the ad ...Show more
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
39.99 NZD
Category: Military History
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
David Roberts' Delightfully Different Fairy Tales by David Roberts; Lynn Roberts-Maloney
29.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in different decades of the 20th century, with funky clothes and recognisable settings. A stunning collaboration between the brilliant illustrator David Roberts and his talented writer sister Lynn. This special collection includes: ...Show more
Escape From Lucania : An Epic Struggle For Survival by David Roberts
28.00 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The epic tale of a daring feat of mountaineering in pre-war Alaska and its aftermath.By 1937, Mount Lucania, at 17,150 feet, was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. It was not just sheer technical difficulty that made Lucania redoubtable; it was the mountain's inaccessibility, plonked in the ce ...Show more
Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide by David Roberts (editor)
59.95 NZD
Category: Music
Record stores these days are daunting places. How do you choose between the dozens of versions of Beethoven's Fifth or Verdi's Aida? Fear not: The Classical Good CD Guide 2005 - published in association with Bose - is here to help. Drawing on reviews in the world's leading classical CD review magaz ...Show more
His Royal Tinyness: A Terrible True Story by Sally Lloyd-Jones Sally; David Roberts David
27.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Once upon a time there was a happy family: A mum, a dad, a gerbil, and the most beautifulest, cleverest, ever so kindest Princess Marianna. Until one horrible no good day when a new ruler was born...From two of the most revered picture book creators working today comes a unique home-grown fairy tale abo ...Show more
Jack and the Flumflum Tree by Julia Donaldson; David Roberts (Illustrator)
18.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Jack's Granny is sick with a bad case of the moozles The only cure is the fruit of the fantastic flumflum tree which grows on the faraway Isle of Blowyernose. It's a perilous journey, but Jack bravely sets sail, with a motley crew of only three--and a large patchwork sack that Granny has filled with an ...Show more
My Joke Book (Dirty Bertie) by David Roberts
15.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Dirty Bertie
Packed full of Dirty Bertie's favourite jokes: smelly jokes, revolting jokes, snotty jobkes and rude jokes. Take this book into school to amuse your friends and anny your teachers!--Cover.
Pick Me Up : Stuff You Need to Know... by Roger Bridgman & Jeremy Leslie & David Roberts
55.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Once you pick me up, you won't want to put me down...I'm an encyclopedia, but not as you know it. Big books with facts are boring - I'm not. I'm more like a computer game than a book, crammed with funky pages and cartoons. Forget A-Z, just follow my lead and you'll be amazed where you end up! Was Beetho ...Show more
Pirates, Plants and Plunder! by Stewart Ross (illus David Roberts)
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Twelve fascinating tales about the adventurers who travelled all over the globe, finding new plants and the amazing things they produce. Join Joseph Banks as he gets stranded on the Australian Great Barrier Reef whilst searching for new botanical specimens. Battle with the Mexican Emperor Montezuma agai ...Show more
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.