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Big Questions: What Is New Zealand's Future? by Various Authors
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
New Zealand is at a crossroads. People are increasingly concerned about where we are headed. Can we improve our appalling statistics on poverty and violence? What about work - will we all be replaced by robots? Will our children (let alone our grandchildren) be able to afford to buy a house? Can we clea ...Show more
Fourteen Poems about Kissing by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
Most of us can remember our first kiss, whether it was glorious and transporting or merely awkward. Kissing, it transpires, can happen anywhere on a train, in a city park or against a kitchen fridge. The poems dramatise the fact that a kiss can make time stand still or send us into a dizzy spin: And the ...Show more
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
30.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the ...Show more
Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various Authors
30.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an ...Show more
Ten Poems about Cats by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
These lovely poetry pamphlets make perfect presents - unusual, beautiful, worthwhile and definitely not for throwing away. They come with an envelope and bookmark left blank for your message. Interesting and enjoyable to read they make an excellent introduction to the work of contemporary and historic p ...Show more
Ten Poems about Families by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
Where would we be without families, to lift us up and love us, to make us who we are? This anthology celebrates all of the humour and warmth, the strength and joy, that families bring us. We meet a doting grandfather who makes a car out of sand for his granddaughter on the beach, spend time at a ghostly ...Show more
Ten Poems about Hats by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
Coco Chanel declared a hat to be essential when lunching with people one didn't know very well. These days such pretensions may seem old hat but we still set store by this quintessentially personal item of clothing. In these pages we encounter hats of all shapes and sizes. There's a grandfather's belove ...Show more
Ten Poems about Knitting by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
Whether you're proficient with purl, canny with cable or don't know your size 9s from your shoe size, here are ten irresistible poems about the joys of knitting. Stitches morph into poems in which needles flash like rapiers, wool is wound into balls and the door of the local wool shop opens onto hushed ...Show more
Ten Poems about Mothers by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
A beautiful alternative to a greeting card, this lovely collection of ten poems comes complete with an envelope - perfect to accompany a gift, or unusual enough to be a gift on its own. This wonderful mini-anthology of poems is a celebration of the many ways in which mothers are important in our lives. ...Show more
Ten Poems about Wine by VARIOUS AUTHORS
16.00 NZD
Category: Gift
John Keats' beaker of the warm South must be the most famous glass of wine in poetry. Who could fail to remember the beaded bubbles and the purple-stained mouth ? We can almost taste the rich berry notes as we read. This selection features part of that much-loved paean to a luscious red, alongside poems ...Show more
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