Tales of Endurance by Fergus Fleming
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An unrivalled collection of tales of courage, stamina, resourcefulness and the will to survive from the author of the best-selling Barrow's Boys. Tales of Endurance offers 45 gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the history of exploration. The tales are divided between three 'ages ...Show more
Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"As one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is rightly acclaimed for his use of language. And as a Booker Prize winning novelist, this skill was shown to particular effect in both Starbook (his most recent work) and in The Famished Road. In Tales of Freedom he brings both poetry and story together in ...Show more
Tales of Norse Mythology (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by H.A. Guerber
$58.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions
Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these legends tel ...Show more
Tales of Persuasion by Philip Hensher
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ten daring stories from 'a writer who seems capable of anything' (Guardian), the Booker Prize-shortlisted Philip Hensher Backdrops vary in this collection of stories from the author of The Northern Clemency - from turmoil in Sudan following the death of a politician in a plane crash, to southern India w ...Show more
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission: vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraf ...Show more
Talia by Isla Huia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a critique of hometowns, an analysis of whakapapa, and a reclamation of tongue. It is an ode to the earth she stands on, and to a sister she lost to the skies. It is a manifesto for a future full of aunties an ...Show more
Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
There's more than one way to take a life.The first time he saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerised. That night they were both deaf, mouthing to each other over the boomin ...Show more
Talk to Me by T. C. Boyle
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
How far would you go to save someone you love? And what if that someone was ... not exactly human?Guy Schermerhorn, brilliant young professor of psychology and disciple of the pioneering Dr Moncrieff, is making a name for himself on the talk show circuit with an unusual protege in tow- a chimp by the na ...Show more
Talking Animals by Joni Murphy
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Joni Murphy's inventive and beautiful allegory depicts a city enmeshed in climate collapse, blinded to the signs of its imminent destruction by petty hatreds and monstrous greed: that is, the world we are living in now. Talking Animals is an Orwellian tale of totalitarianism in action, but the animals o ...Show more
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