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Awful End (Eddie Dickens #1) by Philip Ardagh Illustrated by David Roberts
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children's 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
$40.00 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
Dirty Bertie (Book & CD) by Alan MacDonald & David Roberts
$25.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Dirty Bertie
Bertie has shockingly dirty habits. Whenever he does something dirty his family shouts, "No Bertie! That's dirty, Bertie!" But there's one habit Bertie won't give up. The complete story, with original music and sound effects, is read on CD by Jason Isaacs and Lesley Sharp.
Jack and the Flumflum Tree by Julia Donaldson; David Roberts (Illustrator)
$19.00 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
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
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$37.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
COMING TO TV IN OCTOBER Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unions, and shops he had committed while addicted to heroin. In J ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
He was Australia's most wanted man. Now he's written Australia's most wanted novel. Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unio ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$29.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$60.00 NZD
Category: No Category
""It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."" So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. "S ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
""It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."" So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. "S ...Show more
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World: Four Against the Arctic by David Roberts
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
While reading Valerian Albanov's In The Land Of White Death David Roberts came across an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive for six years on Svalbard in the high Arctic. Incredulous, Roberts - an expert on exploration literature - determined to learn the truth abou ...Show more