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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. It depicts a totalitarian world known as Gilead, portraying the subjection of women in a patriarchal society. The near-future New England setting illustrates a bleak portrayal of the world after the United States is overthrown by a fundamentalist group. Society is reorganized by the regime using a peculiar interpretation of some Old Testament ideas, and a new militarized, hierarchical model of social and religious fanaticism...
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Station Eleven
by Emily St John Mandel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Now an original series on HBO Max. Over one million copies sold!
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a... Read more about this item
Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a... Read more about this item
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance is the third book by Rohinton Mistry. Set in Mumbai, India between 1975 and 1977 during the turmoil of The Emergency, a period of expanded government power and crackdowns on civil liberties, this book is about four characters from varied backgrounds—Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash and the young lad Maneck—who come together and develop a bond. First published by McClelland and Stewart in 1995, it won the Giller Prize.
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published twelve collections of stories and two volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Literary Award, the United...
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Anne Of Green Gables
by L M Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables is the first novel by Canadian author
Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story tells of the adventures of Anne Shirley, an
11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,
a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them
on their farm in Prince Edward Island.
Like many of her contemporaries, Montgomery did not consider
submitting her first novel to a Canadian publisher, convinced that a more
lucrative deal could be made with an... Read more about this item
Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story tells of the adventures of Anne Shirley, an
11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,
a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them
on their farm in Prince Edward Island.
Like many of her contemporaries, Montgomery did not consider
submitting her first novel to a Canadian publisher, convinced that a more
lucrative deal could be made with an... Read more about this item
East Of Eden
by John Steinbeck
East of Eden is a novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1952. It tells the multi-generational story of two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks, in California's Salinas Valley. The novel explores themes of good and evil, love and hate, and the human capacity for both. It also delves into the nature of family dynamics, inheritance, and the American dream. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the novel's narrative structure allows for a deep exploration of their motivations and emotions. East of...
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Life Of Pi
by Yann Martel
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean. The novel was first published by Knopf Canada in September 2001, and the UK edition won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year.
Autobiography Of Red
by Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red (1998) is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis. Autobiography of Red is the story of a red winged monster living in the modern day. Sexually abused by his older brother, his affectionate mother too weak-willed to protect him, the monstrous young boy finds solace in photography and in a romance with a young man named Herakles.
Shoeless Joe
by W P Kinsella
More than the inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe is a mythical novel about “dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (Philadelphia Inquirer). “If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words, spoken by an Iowa baseball announcer, inspire Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is both a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most...
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And Quiet Flows the Don
by Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (1934) is the first part of the great Don epic Tikhiy Don (Тихий Дон, literally "The Quiet Don"), written by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940. The English translation of the first half of this monumental work appeared under this title in 1934.
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre, an Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell". Orphaned as a child, Jane felt like an outcast during her childhood. She was sent by her cruel aunt to a boarding school where she was met with further torment. After the devastating loss of a friend, she finds herself enrolled under a new headmaster at the Lowood School...
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Fiction by Country Books & Ephemera
Land Uprooted High: New Zealand's Rise to International Insignificance
by Grant, A. K; Gabara, K. P
127 pages plus Appendix. Black & white illustrations. Ownership name to top corner of Ffep. Light shelfwear to spine ends. Unclipped Dust Jacket has small tear to rear top edge.
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£4.86
Long Night Among the Stars
by Pat Booth
Dark blue covers titled in gilt on spine. 191pp. Ffep bears previous owner's details concealed with black marker. Remainder mark across bottom edge of text block. Trace of foxing around edges. Dust Jacket has light foxing on reverse and tiny chip to tail of spine.
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£6.48
The Boy with the Snowgrass Hair
by Locke, Elsie; Dawson, Ken
Auckland, New Zealand: Whitcoulls, 1976. Kairangi Series. Light brown boards lettered in gilt on spine. 181pp. plus glossary. B/w illustrations. Faint trace of foxing to closed page edges. Clean and firmly bound. DJ has very little wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£19.43
This Year in Jerusalem
by Joel Gross
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1984. Mass Market Paperback. VERY GOOD. Pages are tanned. Spine is faded. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings. 287 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£6.44
The Other Shore: A Novel
by Taylor, Brian
Martinborough, New Zealand : Alister Taylor Publishing Limited, 1975. Grey cloth, gilt text to spine. 89 pp. Slim, square format. High quality semi-gloss paper. Very small felt pen mark across lower edge of text block. One page has a professional repair vertical to the gutter margin. Very clean with firm binding. Thin paper DJ, cover photograph and design by Gillian McGregor, has minor wear to spine tips and corners. A novel of suspense and tragedy by a New Zealand author. This is the author's first...
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£14.57
When You Were Mine
by Elizabeth Noble
Penguin Books, 2011. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Minor shelf wear. No creases. No writing/markings. 331 pages. Includes readers guide. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£7.41
Disinformer, Two Novellas
by Peter Ustinov
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1989. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. 8vo. Dust jacket is faintly rubbed, with a bit of faint foxing to verso. No writing, highlighting, or underlining. Dust jacket is protected in new archival mylar. 133 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£9.03
The Miserables
by Wilkins, Damien
Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, 1994. Winner of the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Card Covers. 237pp. Small name and date on Ffep. Contents clean and tight. New Zealand Fiction. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£8.10
Jubilee
by Solomon, Nepi
Auckland, New Zealand: Tandem Press, 1994. 184pp. Light crease to front cover otherwise a tight, clean copy. Fiction set in New Zealand. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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£6.48
Collected Stories
by Duggan, Maurice
New Zealand: Auckland University Press , 1981. Edited and Introduced by C.K. Stead. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 379 pp. Previous owner's signature to Ffep. Tight and clean. DJ unclipped, surface and edges lightly rubbed, several tiny nicks to top edge, small wite-out mark to top edge of front flap. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£38.86
Leaning On The Wind
by Haysom, Bevan
Auckland, New Zealand: Beverly Mills Publishing Co., 1996. Card Covers. Trade Size. 307 pp. Clean and firmly bound. Set in the 1850s and 1860s, it is both a romance and a rousing adventure story about pioneer life in a developing society and of Maori and Pakeha striving to live together.. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£12.14
Ratatui
by Ovenden, Keith
Auckland, New Zealand: Benton Ross, 1984. Blue cloth, gilt text to spine. 242 pp. Top edge has light dust spotting. A very light trace of foxing to rear fep and fore edge of text block. Ffep has name crossed out and tiny wite-out mark. Clean and firmly bound. DJ has minor rubbing to edges. A richly comic satire of New Zealand society, institutions and times. Ratatui taps into the vein of New Zealand humour, captures the essence of the New Zealand character and offers penetrating insights into the New...
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£12.95
Confidence Corner
by Scanlan, Nelle M
London: Robert Hale, 1950. 'A brilliant and unfailingly entertaining picture of New Zealand life which lingers long in the memory'. Blue cloth, gilt and silver on spine. 318pp. Cloth is lightly rubbed on edges and corner tips. Ffep has tiny name and pricemark in pen. Clean and firmly bound.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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£9.71
Cast Two Shadows
by Rosier-Jones, Joan
Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. Black boards, white lettering to spine. pp.256. Tail of spine has light shelfwear. Foxing to outer text block edges. Contents clean and tight. DJ has trace of shelfwear. "One of the first novels to deal honestly with the complex question of mixed Pakeha/Maori ancestry". . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£17.81
A Gun in My Hand
by Slatter, Gordon
Christchurch, New Zealand: The Pegasus Press, 1959. Tan cloth titled in black on spine. 240pp. Trace of foxing and small spot to top edge. Small dampstain to cloth on front cover. Contents clean and tight. Unclipped DJ worn at corner tips with small area of dye bleed on reverse of front panel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 64mo - up to 3" tall.
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£8.10
THE FOUNDERS: Volume 2 of the New Zealanders
by Aaron Fletcher
Black covers titled in silver on spine. 424 pages. Pages unmarked, binding square and tight.Dust Jacket included.
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£24.28
I'm Sorry Amanda
by Bream, Freda
New Zealand: Collins, 1974. A witty and entertaining book, with much that will make you smile - sometimes laugh aloud - but always there is an Amanda, the problem pupil who resists all attempts on the part of her teachers to establish contact and understanding. Blue boards, black text on spine. 211pp. Edgewear to top and bottom of boards. Small pen mark on ffep corner. DJ has tiny chip at joint extremites and on spine with light foxing on the reverse. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over...
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£8.10
MUM
by Eldred-Grigg, Stevan
Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books, 1995. The final book in the Oracles and Miracles Series. 317 pp. Spine lightly creased and sunned. First page has p/o name and number with slight darkening to outer edge. Contents tight and clean. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£12.95
Husband and Wife
by Leah Stewart
New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Shelf wear. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings. 344 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£7.41
Spur of Morning
by Mulgan, Alan
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd , 1960. Black cloth, yellow text to spine. 364 pp. Light trace of foxing to eps and text block edge. Clean with tight binding. Unclipped DJ has white tape to spine tips on the inside, which has prevented wear. Very nice copy of a New Zealand classic. The story covers the opening years of the twentieth century, and gives a panorama of notable personalities, great social changes, and political developments, against the grand and romantic background of the New Zealand landscape.....
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£12.14
Daddy
by Charles Cohen
New York: Pocket, 1987. Mass Market Paperback. VERY GOOD. Ink stamp '11' on bottom edge of text block. Pages are tanned. Foxing inside covers. Spine is not creased. Binding is sound. No writing/markings. 288 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£6.44
New Zealand Short Stories 2: Along Rideout Road
by Stead, C. K. (editor)
Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press , 1989. Card Covers. 244 pp. These stories have been chosen from the period between the early fifties to the mid sixties. Authors include Frank Sargeson, Roderick Finlayson, Maurice Duggan, David Ballantyne, Janet Frame, Jacqueline Sturm and others. . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£8.10
Leavin' America
by David Rosenberg
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. VERY GOOD. A few scattered foxing marks to page edges. Limited edition of 1000 copies. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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£8.86
Paddy's Puzzle
by Kidman, Fiona
New Zealand: Heinemann, 1983. Blue cloth, silver text on spine. 208pp. Very light dust marks to top edge. DJ not priceclipped, light sunning to spine and top edge. A novel set in wartime Auckland, New Zealand. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Item Price
£8.10
