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An Unreliable Man by Jostein Gaarder; Nichola Smalley (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
An Unreliable Man by Jostein Gaarder; Nichola Smalley (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
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 funerals of people he doesn ...Show more
Hello? Is Anybody There? by Jostein Gaarder
$12.05 AUD
Category: Children's Classics
In the hours before his brother is born, eight year old Joe has an unusual visitor, Mika, who falls out of a spaceship and lands upside down in an apple tree in Joe's garden. Hens, dinosaurs, an astronaut and a white rabbit all play their part in this magical story in which the encounter between Earth-b ...Show more
Maya by Gaarder, Jostein
$22.95 AUD
Category: 8-12 Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A mysterious novel by the author of the international bestseller SOPHIE'S WORLD. A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norw ...Show more
Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
$14.23 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Twelve-year-old Hans and his father have left home to search for Hans's mother. She went to Greece to 'find herself' when he was four. Hans's father loves to philosophise on life (and to drink) and Hans is always happy to listen. But this turns out to be a strange journey. A dwarf in Switzerland gives H ...Show more
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$22.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
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 by Jostein Gaarder
$17.99 AUD
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.
The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder (tr Elizabeth Rokkan; illus Rosemary Wells)
$19.99 AUD
Category: 8-12 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
The Frog Castle by Jostein Gaarder; Philip Hopman (Illustrator)
$27.45 AUD
Category: Early Readers
The magical adventures of a small boy who helps a frog turn back into a prince, and is rewarded with a visit to the Frog Castle. Here, in an Alice-in-Wonderland story where dreams and reality are intertwined and time is turned on its head, he meets a little princess called Aurora, a wicked lord chamberl ...Show more
The Frog Castle by Jostein Gaarder
$10.95 AUD
Category: 8-12 Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This is the story of the magical adventures of a small boy who helps a frog turn back into a prince and is rewarded with a visit to the Frog Castle. As with all Gaarder stories, there is a subtext, this time the gentle exploration of a child learning to come to terms with his grandfather\\\'s death.