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A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The last roundup | Reading Level: good
A historical tale marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend - one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library editionWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead m ...Show more
"A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four" (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more
Adult Fantasy: My Search for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Supposedly Adult Milestones by Briohny Doyle
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky- the sound of a cultural clock counting me out of youth.'Briohny Doyle turned thirty without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. The world she lived in, with i ...Show more
Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library edition As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would get the vote - ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Buil ...Show more
All the Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
The stunning new novel about silenced female voices, family secrets and dangerous truths from the author of The Accident Season. 'Astonishingly potent' Booklist 'Uncompromising, raw, devastating' Publishers Weekly 'I am in absolute awe of it' Melinda Salisbury On Deena's seventeenth birthday, the day sh ...Show more
Big Pig by Malachy Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
When little pigs get big, they must learn how to do things on their own.
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
When Uncle Ben's Dublin business fails, it's clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and he won't be OK until it's gone, they decide they're going to get rid ...Show more
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
When Uncle Ben's Dublin business fails, it's clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and he won't be OK until it's gone, they decide they're going to get rid ...Show more
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each are concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the ...Show more