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The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
She began with little Crackle-Dragons, six on a string. Then she learned how to make Leaping Monkeys, Golden Sneezes, and Java Lights. Soon she was thinking about more complicated ones . . .What Lila wants to be more than anything else in the world is a Firework-Maker. But firework-making isn't just abo ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser.
In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman reimagines the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and great power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ says something new about who Jesus was and asks questions that will resonate lo ...Show more
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A thought-provoking retelling of the Gospel story from an atheist perspective. Upon its hardcover publication, renowned author Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ provoked heated debates and stirred a frenzy of controversy throughout the clerical and literary worlds alike with ...Show more
The Ruby In the Smoke by Philip Pullman
$19.50 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Sally Lockhart 1 | Reading Level: very good
Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea, she receives a strange anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet. Determined to discover the truth about her father's death, Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London, at the ...Show more
The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: good
A wonderful new tale of two friends: a scarecrow made of straw and turnip, and his servant, a clever little boy named Jack. Their journey of discovery takes them into hilarious situations and terrifying dangers, but Jack's common sense always saves the day. This fantastic story of friendship and love is ...Show more
The Scarecrow and the Servant by Philip Pullman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
What would you say if I offered you the position of my personal servant? I have nothing to offer but excitement and glory. We might sometimes go hungry, but we shall never want for adventure . . .'So begins the story of the Scarecrow, a courteous but pea-brained fellow with grand ideas. He meets a boy, ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The Book of Dust 2 | Reading Level: near fine
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage- The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Book of Dust
From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials trilogy comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . . Lyra Silvertongue is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. They are not getting on. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misse ...Show more
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: His Dark Materials Ser.
1. What is wrong with Will's mother? Are her concerns real, imagined, or both? Why and how does Will protect her? 2. What does it mean when Lyra assumes Will's daemon is 'inside'? Do the people in Will's world, our world, have daemons at all? 3. Why does Will's being a murderer enable Lyra to trust him? ...Show more
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: His Dark Materials | Reading Level: very good
the second book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. The story begins in Oxford, where Will Parry is desperate to discover the truth about his disappeared father. Climbing through an extraordinary window in the air, Will meets Lyra and her personal daemon - who we first met in Northern Lights ...Show more
The Subtle Knife (#2 His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: His Dark Materials | Reading Level: very good
"What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful w ...Show more