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Published by Penguin 2009 : ( 7 other books by this author also available.) A paperback. Orders shipped daily., 2009
Seller: Mr.G.D.Price, Mansfield, United Kingdom
VERY GOOD condition.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0140025499ISBN 13: 9780140025491
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Poor. 176 pages.
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Published by Penguin 2009 Paperback, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141330309ISBN 13: 9780141330303
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 376 pages.
Published by Penguin Books 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143202499ISBN 13: 9780143202493
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. 318 pages.
Published by Penguin Classics 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0141191074ISBN 13: 9780141191072
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Condition: Near Mint. Journeying through England on horseback, the intrepid seventeenth-century traveller Celia Fiennes recorded every sight and experience of her adventure in her journal, from her delight at countryside cakes and the beauty of remote landscapes, to the challe 96 pages.
Published by Penguin 2009 Paperback, 2010
ISBN 10: 0143202693ISBN 13: 9780143202691
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Scarcely out of print since the early 1870s, For the Term of His Natural Life has provided successive generations with a vivid account of a brutal phase of colonial life. The main focus of this great convict novel is the complex interaction between those in power and those who suffer, made meaningful because of its hero's struggle against his wrongful imprisonment. Elements of romance, incidents of family life and passages of scenic description both relieve and give emphasis to the tragedy that forms its heart. 445 pages.
Published by Penguin books, limited 2009 Paperback, 2010
ISBN 10: 0141030992ISBN 13: 9780141030999
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related.Or so the hospital informs her when Mrs Shapiro has an accident and names Georgie next of kin. This, however, is not a case of a quick ward visit: Mrs Shapiro has a large rickety house full of stinky cats that needs looking after that a pair of estate agents seem intent on swindling from her. Plus there are the 'Uselesses' trying to repair it (uselessly). Then there's the social worker who wants to put her in a nursing home. Not to mention some letters that point to a mysterious, painful past.As Georgie tries her best to put Mrs Shapiro's life back together somehow she must stop her own from falling apart. 432 pages.
Published by Penguin Books Australia 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143007009ISBN 13: 9780143007005
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make . . . It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in love with the beguiling Anna van Heerden. Their time together is brief, as both are forced into separate, dangerous escapes. They plan to reunite and marry in Australia but it is several years before their paths cross again, scarred forever by the dark events of a long, cruel war. In The Persimmon Tree, Bryce Courtenay gives us a story of love and friendship set against the dramatic backdrop of the Pacific during the Second World War. 848 pages.
Published by Penguin 2009 Paperback, 2008
ISBN 10: 014103940XISBN 13: 9780141039404
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The revolutionary international bestseller that will stop you smoking - for good.'If you follow my instructions you will be a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.' That's a strong claim from Allen Carr, but as the world's leading and most successful quit smoking expert, Allen was right to boast! Reading this book is all you need to give up smoking. You can even smoke while you read. There are no scare tactics, you will not gain weight and stopping will not feel like deprivation. If you want to kick the habit then go for it. Allen Carr helped millions of people become happy non-smokers. His unique method removes your psychological dependence on cigarettes and literally sets you free. Accept no substitute.Nine million people can't be wrong. 272 pages.
Published by Penguin 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0141040467ISBN 13: 9780141040462
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. 'I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark . . . a fine balance of humour and poignancy' The TimesAll Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It's about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between.'Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye' Independent 'A delight - high-spirited, light-footed, very funny and wickedly observant' Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement'The salty prose of an original poetic voice' Melvyn Bragg, Observer, Books of the YearWhy not also read the companion?Gig 256 pages.
Published by Penguin Books 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143202766ISBN 13: 9780143202769
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester. A twentieth-century Australian classic, The Well is a haunting and wryly humorous tale of memory, desire and loneliness. 233 pages.
Published by Penguin Books 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143010689ISBN 13: 9780143010685
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 'The genuine article: gritty and honest and harsh as a crow's cry.'ROBERT DREWEGrowing up, Dennis McIntosh was determined not to get stuck in a factory like his father. And when he takes a job as a roustabout he discovers what he really wants to be: a shearer, the king of the sheds. But it soon turns out this legendary occupation isn't everything it seems. Dennis discovers what it feels like when your eyelids are the only bit of you that doesn't hurt. When the heat in the sheds kills the sheep before you're done shearing them. When the road isn't taking you towards adventure, it's taking you away from your family, and you drink to forget. Beaten by a Blow tells the story of a boy full of hope crashing headlong into life ? into work, into drink, into responsibilities he isn't ready for, which come closer to breaking his back than shearing ever did.'Holds the reader in the grip of its merciless narrative from beginning to end . . . A work of art.'Roger McDonald, THE AUSTRALIAN'Fascinating. The story could have been told by Henry Lawson in the 1890s. A remarkably good writer.' Bruce Elder, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 288 pages.
Published by Penguin 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0141043784ISBN 13: 9780141043784
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, their kindnesses and weaknesses, the absurd and comic turning-points of his past. Finally, in Legend of a Suicide, Roy lays his fathers ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.Revolving around a fatally misconceived adventure deep in the wilderness of Alaska, this is a remarkably tender story of survival and disillusioned love. 240 pages.
Published by Penguin Books 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0141045485ISBN 13: 9780141045481
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Mint. When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders, an eccentric group of relatives suffering from a wide variety of ailments. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. 233 pages.
Published by Penguin Group Australia 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 014318024XISBN 13: 9780143180241
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Mint. Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature. 168 pages.
Published by Penguin Global 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 014300980XISBN 13: 9780143009801
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 'Celebrate beginnings, middles and ends of seasons, New Year, Valentine's Day, end of school year, Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, Easter, end of the week, Saturdays and Sundays. There are so many occasions to celebrate. You can have a celebration every day if you are up to it. People who love good food embrace life and will find this a reason, as much as designated days, for festivity. Sharing food at a table is also sharing joie de vivre, bonhomie and spirituality. Raise a glass to celebrate life and be thankful that you have been given an entitlement to bountiful food.' So says chef, caterer and cookbook author extraordinaire Ruth Pretty, for whom entertaining has always been at the forefront of her life. Whether your occasion is a celebration, a summer barbecue, a cosy winter fireside meal, a posh affair or simply drinks and nibbles, you are sure to find plenty of recipes to delight and impress your guests and create special memories in Ruth Pretty Entertains. heavy; signed; no dj 176 pages.
Published by Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143011847ISBN 13: 9780143011842
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. I have written this book because I believe those of us who have been abused by the nuns and priests need to tell our stories so the abuse of children will never happen again. This crime and our shame will never go away until we stand together as one and say to the Catholic Church, 'No more abuse; no more lies; tell the world the truth.'Conceived out of wedlock in 1941, Ann was just two months old when she was placed in the care of a Catholic orphanage in Christchurch, New Zealand. From the beginning, she was taught her mother was sinful and that she would be too unless the devil was beaten from her soul. She was physically and sexually abused by religious and lay staff at the orphanage from an early age and was forced to work long hours on the orphanage farm and later in the laundries.In 1997, when Ann watched a Prime Television documentary exposing the decades of abuse by the Good Shepherd nuns at the Christchurch orphanage, she realised hers wasn't the only lost childhood.Say Sorry documents the abuse inflicted on Ann and its ongoing consequences. It is also the story of her battle to get authorities within the Catholic Church to accept responsibility for the past institutionalised abuse of children and young people in its care; to acknowledge culpability and admit - unconditionally - that there was wrongdoing. 208 pages.
Published by Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143202502ISBN 13: 9780143202509
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A man builds a swing in the backyard to sit between his wife and her lover. A couple gives up their seat on a bus for lovers soon to be parted. A boy sees his mother come to life gliding on roller skates. Lloyd Jones's The Man in the Shed is a haunting collection of stories about family and longing. Jones's extraordinary tales take conventional family situations and tilt them sideways, delivering a memorable, beautiful blend of the suburban and the surreal. 256 pages.
Published by Penguin 2009 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143202413ISBN 13: 9780143202417
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. Helen Clark led the Labour Party for 15 years, resurrecting it from the rifts of Rogernomics before becoming one of New Zealand's most successful leaders. Her term as Prime Minister lasted nine years. Clark's wider tenure in politics, however, stretches from the anti-war protests of 1968 through the rise of feminism, environmentalism and market forces, to the global financial crisis of 2008 - 40 years of extraordinary political change.Remarkably, no political biography of Helen Clark has been written before. Here, for the first time, is the full story of how Clark rose to power and held both the Labour Party and the New Zealand Government together, cementing her place in our country's political history.This is an unauthorised biography. 240 pages.