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An Unreliable Man by Jostein Gaarder; Nichola Smalley (Translator)
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: 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.
The Castle in the Pyrenees by Jostein Gaarder
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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)
$21.95 AUD
Category: 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 Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist. At fifteen, Georg comes upon a letter written to him by his dying father, to be read when he is old enough. Their two voices make a fascinating dialogue as Georg gets to know the father he can barely remember and is challenged by him to answer some profoun ...Show more
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