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An Unreliable Man by Jostein Gaarder; Nichola Smalley (Translator)
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Condition: **NEW** From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder, author of modern classic Sophie's World, comes a novel about loneliness and the power of words Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funer ...Show more
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
28.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
The international bestseller about life, the universe and everything. When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter ...Show more
Sophie's World Vol 1: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy: From Socrates to Galileo by Jostein Gaarder, Vincent Zabus (Adapted by), Nicoby (artist)
40.00 NZD
Category: Graphic novels
The worldwide philosophy bestseller reimagined as a graphic novel. One day, Sophie receives a cryptic letter posing an intriguing question: "Who are you?" A second message soon follows: "Where does the world come from?" It is the beginning of an unusual correspondence between our curious young heroine a ...Show more
Sophie's World Vol II: A Graphic Novel about the History of Philosophy: from Descartes to the Present Day by Jostein Gaarder; Nicoby (Illustrator); Vincent Zabus (Adapted by)
45.00 NZD
Category: Graphic novels
Sophie's come a long way since the day she received that cryptic letter with its intriguing question: "Who are you?". The mysterious correspondence sweeps our curious young heroine off on a tour of Western philosophy from its ancient foundations through the Renaissance. But it also prompts more personal ...Show more
The Castle in the Pyrenees by Jostein Gaarder
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories ...Show more
The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder (tr Elizabeth Rokkan; illus Rosemary Wells)
27.99 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Christmas Fiction
Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine, and back through 2000 years to meet the Holy Family in Bethlehem. There she met angels, shepherds, wise men and other biblical characters who joined her on her ...Show more
World According to Anna by Jostein Gaarder
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaught ...Show more
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