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Portable Magic - A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
$50.00 NZD
Category: Reference
'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow ...Show more
Porto (Portuguese Tiles) Midi Lined Hardback Journal by Paperblanks
$33.00 NZD
Category: Journals | Series: Portuguese Tiles Ser.
Azulejos (meaning "small polished stone") are painted, glazed ceramic tiles that date back to 13th-century Portugal where they were used inside buildings during the Gothic period. Today, we see these decorative tiles across a wide range of buildings, from monasteries, palaces and restaurants to bars, ra ...Show more
Portrait in Sepia - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Spectacular story-telling . . . the author's elaborate skill in weaving intimate emotional detail into the broad canvas of history is in fantastic display."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution A spellbinding family saga--a sequel to Daughter of Fortune--from the bestselling author of The House of the Spirit ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (#22 Gabriel Allon) by Daniel Silva
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Gabriel Allon Ser.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for ...Show more
Portrait of the Artist's Wife by Anderson Barbara
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: VUP Classic
Victoria University Press is enormously proud to publish this new edition of one of New Zealand's favourite novels, 26 years after it was first published to critical acclaim here and in the UK and US. While Sarah Tandy is determined to nurture her talent as a painter and keep her marriage intact, her hu ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Possessionis an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets.Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and trag ...Show more
Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A "violently funny" (Myriam Gurba), "pathologically consumable" (Tommy Pico), "brilliant" (Deesha Philyaw) debut about a young Black Latina lawyer finally confronting her dark past To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story--a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New ...Show more
Postcards From Penguin: 100 Book Jackets In One by PENGUIN
$38.00 NZD
Category: Stationary
This is a collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station, looking for a good book for the journey t ...Show more
Postcards from Penguin Classics: One Hundred Book Covers in One Box by NONE
$37.00 NZD
Category: Stationary
Since its launch with The Odyssey in 1946, Penguin Classics has become the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, Postcards from Penguin Classics is the ...Show more
Postcards from Surfers (Popular Penguin) by Helen Garner
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
From one of Australia's most celebrated writers come 11 stories about the complexities of life and love; of looking back and longing; of what it means to be a stranger, on foreign ground and known, told with the piercing familiarity and resonance we have come to expect from Helen Garner. Remarkably hone ...Show more