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100 Essential New Zealand Albums by Nick Bollinger
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 100 Essential New Zealand Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Music-lovers love lists, and this Top 100 from Radio New Zealand's highly respected music guru Nick Bollinger will not disappoint. As his legions of fans know, Bollinger's taste is eclectic: he's as likely to give space to the Axemen as to Bic Runga. His choices come accompanied by some of the most ente ...Show more
100 Essential New Zealand Films by Hamish McDouall
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 100 Essential New Zealand Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Film critic, Sale of the Century and Mastermind winner Hamish McDouall spent several months in darkened rooms watching films to produce this brilliant and unusual selection. It encompasses short films, feature films, documentaries and digifilms. Yes, The Lord of the Rings and Whale Rider are here, but s ...Show more
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy.Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift ...Show more
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven R. Fischer
55.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholars ...Show more
A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven R. Fischer
168.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Palgrave Essential Histories Series
"A History of the Pacific Islands" traces the human history of nearly one third of the globe over a 50,000-year span, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day.
A Room with a View by E M Forster, E.M. Forster, E. M. Forster, E.M. Forster And Malcolm Bradbury
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you ...'. Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters ...Show more
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the famil ...Show more
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - 'the man from nowhere' - they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets, and against the outside world as it moves towards the First World War. As time passes, their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory. But ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Pauline Francis
17.00 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Essential Classics - Dickens Classics
A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens' tale of London and Paris leading up to, and during, the dramatic upheavals of the French Revolution. After being released from Bastille prison, Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, in London. When Lucie falls in love with and marries a French emigre, t ...Show more
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
This fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life is a must-listen. Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inn ...Show more
AWW Gluten-Free Family Favourites
16.95 NZD
Category: Magazines | Series: The Australian Women's Weekly: New Essentials
The Christmas party season is the perfect time to treat friends and family to wonderful meals. With small plates, sharing dishes, one-pot favourites and make-ahead ideas, the recipes in this book cover the whole spectrum and are packed with tips and hints to make entertaining at home easy.
AWW Low Carb Less Fat
16.95 NZD
Category: Magazines | Series: The Australian Women's Weekly: New Essentials
Foolproof, easy-to-follow birthday cakes for boys and girls, young and old