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The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Penguin Picks Ser.
I am English. Tweedy. Pukka. Confident. Establishment. Self-assured. In charge. That is how people like to see me, be the truth never so at variance. In fact, I am chronically overmastered by a sense of failure, underachievement and a terrible knowledge that I have betrayed, abused or neglected the tale ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles (#2) by Stephen Fry
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and he emerged as one of the most promising comi ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
$50.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Thirteen years ago, "Moab is my Washpot," Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a mul ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
$46.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi ...Show more
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swaffo ...Show more
The Liar by Stephen Fry
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violin ...Show more
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discove ...Show more
The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the poet within by Stephen Fry
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Stephen Fry's On Poetry provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. TERZA RIMA The terza rima mode is very fine, Great Dante used it for his famous text; It rhymes the words in every other line With each thought drawing you towards the next: A B A B, C B, C D C D. ...Show more
The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
'We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded / Which may please them'. ('The Duchess of Malfi', John Webster). For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman ...Show more
Troy (HB) by Stephen Fry
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths Ser.
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
$27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more