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A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Frances
Tomorrow is Gloria's birthday, and Frances is not happy about it. "That's how it is, " she says. "Your birthday is always the one that is not now." Frances does not want to be a part of any celebration that is not for her, let alone one for her little sister. But when Frances realizes that she is the on ...Show more
A Near Thing for Captain Najork by Russell Hoban
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Fooling around as he loves to do, Tom invents a jam-powered frog, and he and his Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet take it out for a spin. When Captain Najork sees them hopping past his window, he and his hired sportsmen jump into their pedal-powered snake and set off in hot pursuit - bent on revenge after their ...Show more
Ace Dragon Ltd by Russell Hoban
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
From the inimitable duo of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind the hilarious tales of Captain Najork, comes a story about a little boy, a fire-breathing dragon, and their sky-high adventure!
Ace Dragon Ltd by Russell Hoban
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
From the inimitable duo of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind the hilarious tales of Captain Najork, comes a story about a little boy, a fire-breathing dragon, and their sky-high adventure! "I can make fire come out of my nose and mouth," the dragon under the pavement tells John. "I can fl ...Show more
Best Friends for Frances by Russell Hoban
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Frances
Frances doesn't think her younger sister Gloria can be her best friend. Besides, Albert is Frances's best friend. But when Albert has a no-girls baseball game, Frances sets out to prove to Albert a thing or two about friendship - and what girls can do. Along the way, Frances discovers that sisters can i ...Show more
Bread and Jam for Frances (I Can Read) by Russell Hoban
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: I Can Read - Level 2 (Cloth)
Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and j ...Show more
Fremder by Russell Hoban
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fourth Galaxy, 4 November 2052- in the blackness of space a figure in blue overalls tumbles over and over as it drifts towards the planet Badr-al-Budur. No space suit, no helmet, no oxygen. He can't be alive, can he? But he is. First Navigator Fremder Gorn is the only survivor when the Corporation tanke ...Show more
Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban
$25.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Russell Hoban's latest eccentric and charming tale of love and art. 'This is it...this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were c ...Show more
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen HB by Russell Hoban
$28.00 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport
This is a classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham ...Show more
Jim's Lion by Russell Hoban
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
From the incomparable Russell Hoban comes a moving, unflinching tale of a boy who finds bravery during illness, beautifully re-imagined as a graphic-novel by award-winning illustrator Alexis Deacon. Asleep in his hospital bed, Jim dreams of a great lion with white teeth and amber eyes. This lion is Jim' ...Show more
Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'An original ... a delight to read' The Times On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a que ...Show more
Linger Awhile by Russell Hoban
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
When eighty-three-year-old Irving Goodman falls in love with actress, Justine Trimble, she's been dead for forty-seven years. Irving may not know how he's going to attain his heart's desire but he knows a man who does. Istvan Fallok, a wizard of high technology, sees her on Irving's TV screen and hi-tec ...Show more