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A History of Silence - A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The 2011 earthquake which shook Christchurch to its core led Lloyd Jones to investigate his own foundations and family past. And so begins a quest to revisit what has been buried by a legacy of silence. Piecing together his own memories with clues of what has been deliberately forgotten by his parents, ...Show more
Biografi by Lloyd Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the secret police. An insight in to the post-communist regime of Albania.
Biografi by Lloyd Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Biografiis an imaginative melding of travelogue and fable that sparked controversy on its release. When Lloyd Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist who looked like the dictator and had been forced to give up his identity a ...Show more
Choo Woo by Lloyd Jones
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Baby talk. A child's game. But the words take on a sinister new meaning when employed by Ben Strang in the seduction of his de facto wife's twelve-year-old daughter. This novel is the searing account of the outcome of perverted desires and betrayal - and of the spreading ripples of damage and deceit ...Show more
Fifty Penguin Years published to accompany the exhibition on the occasion of Penguin Books fiftieth anniversary by Linda Lloyd Jones and Jeremy Aynsley
$14.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old by his father and stolen away to Berlin. With nothing but her maid's uniform and a knife stashed in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers- some generous, some exploiting-to guide he ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Jones, Lloyd
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Rosa once said that every change of dance partner brings something new out of you. A new way of moving. An entirely new compass is put in place...' The exotic rhythms of Lloyd Jones' new novel move from the West Coast of New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney; from the closing days of the First World Wa ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2007! Winner of Montana Deutz Medal for Fiction 2007. An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author. Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island emabattled by internal strife. Thirteen-year-old Matilda watches as all the foreigners flee her homeland-all but one, the white man Mr. Watts. Amidst the ruins of the town schoolho ...Show more
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. An inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author.Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By ...Show more
Paint Your Wife by Lloyd Jones
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Once, long ago when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting portraits of the women of the town in lieu of payment for catching all the rats. His special favourite was Alice, who returned his attentions. Her husband George came home from the war, and set out to prove his love and reclaim his wi ...Show more