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100 Essential New Zealand Albums by Nick Bollinger
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | 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
500 Essential Cult Books by Gina McKinnon
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 500 Essential...
Gathers some of the finest trade paperbacks, hardbacks, collections, novellas, biographies, poems and graphic novels from around the world. From fiction to non-fiction, poetry to self-help titles this title covers a range of literature and is sorted into thematic genres.
500 Essential Cult Movies: The Ultimate Guide by Jennifer Eiss
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 500 Essential...
There are distinct qualities that make a movie a cult: a devoted and niche following, popularity based on word-of-mouth enthusiasm, and a tendency to remain in fans memories years after release, as well as many other intricacies, often hotly debated by film buffs. "500 Essential Cult Movies" sifts throu ...Show more
500 Essential Graphic Novels by Gene Kannenberg
$55.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: 500 Essential...
In "500 Essential Graphic Novels" the finest paperbacks, collections and hardcovers from around the world are gathered together for the first time in a volume that reveals the sheer diversity and rich talent that abounds in this visually thrilling medium. The creme de la creme of contemporary graphic no ...Show more
A Passage to India by E M Forster
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to Indiais published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and pr ...Show more
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: Classic 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she ...Show more
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
$21.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Afr ...Show more
Annabel Langbein Essential Vol.2 by Annabel Langbein
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Cookbooks | Series: Essential
In this superb new book, best-selling New Zealand cookbook author Annabel Langbein shares hundreds of her favourite and most popular recipes for all things sweet. Featuring everything from nostalgic baking classics to modern vegan desserts, plus tried-and-true tips for perfect results every time and 'sp ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more