Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, "Talking Heads" is widely regarded as a modern classic. This new edition, which con ...Show more
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way, but over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer, destined to be one another's great love story. Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and any possibility of them being together shatters. But that tragedy - and their h ...Show more
Talking it Over by Julian Barnes
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who ' ...Show more
Tall Tales Short: the Novella Project III by Julianne Schultz
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated, ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days). And this child is the means by which many first know our greatest writers...' Ian McEwan In 2012, Griffith Review 38: The Nove ...Show more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly by Billy Connolly
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy, outrag ...Show more
Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for the fun of it. People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village where her ...Show more
Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major development - from the first number systems to chaos theory - and considers how each affected society and chan ...Show more
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated on a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock--suspenseful and atmospheric." --Joyce Carol Oates, author of The Book of American Martyrs The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier wi ...Show more
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends--once inseparable roommates--haven't spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to make things right and return to their old rhythms. Perh ...Show more
Tangi by Witi Ihimaera
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Māori. A landmark literary event, it went on to win the James Wattie Book of the Year Award. He was just 29 years old at the time. At the centre of the novel is the story of a father and son set within ...Show more
Tanqueray by Brandon Stanton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
1970s New York City: Go-go dancers, The Peppermint Lounge, gangsters, Billy’s Topless, and Stephanie Johnson… In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but ...Show more
Tapestry by Fiona McIntosh
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The key to her future is trapped in the past. In 1978, Jane Maxwell is celebrating her engagement to Will, a handsome American geophysicist, but though she should be deliriously happy, she is plagued by doubts. When tragedy leaves Will hanging between life and death, Jane's guilt makes her determined to ...Show more