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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. If you do start to read ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: very good
Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running along ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to d ...Show more
The Congress of Rough Riders by John Boyne
$30.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: good
The novel is narrated by William Cody, born in London in 1970 and brought up alone by his father, Issac. To bridge the generation gap between them, his father tells William stories of their shared ancestry and in particular of Issac¿s grandfather, the famous cowboy Buffalo Bill. In his twenties, William ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. What a thing of wond ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS which won two Irish Book Awards. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenchev is haunted by his past -a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England, with his beloved wife Zoya, Georgy prepares to make ...Show more
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of h ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ha ...Show more