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A History of Silence - A Memoir by Lloyd Jones
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
37.00 NZD
40.00 (7% off)
Category: General 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
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szablowski; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
38.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.' Tim Flannery I used to bottle-feed my father's two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong--the baby drank from the bear's bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the ...Show more
Great Cities (Usborne See Inside) by Rob Lloyd Jones
21.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Usborne See Inside
A flap book for older children that shows the varied and vibrant lives of the world's greatest cities, including London, Paris and New York. It features illustrations and over 80 flaps that reveal the hustle and bustle of everyday city life.
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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 ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Lloyd Jones, author of the bestselling Mister Pip, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the Montana Medal for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, has delivered a poignant tale of a mother's quest to be united with her child. Hand Me Down World tells the story of a nameless Afric ...Show more
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
55.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 ...Show more
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
34.95 NZD
Category: 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
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. This is where Louise and Schmidt's story begins, with a backward step. Intertwining two love stories across three generations, the Booker-shortlisted author of Mister Pip takes us to Buenos Aires, New Zealand and Sydney. ...Show more
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones
27.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The exotic rhythms move from the West Coast of New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney; from the closing days of the First World War to the present time and back over a deries of heart-wrenching journeys in bestween. Taking his cue from the tango, Jones examines the possibility of a passion that must rema ...Show more
High Wire (Korero Series) by Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod
45.00 NZD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Korero Series 1 | Reading Level: very good
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrator ...Show more