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Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
John Egan is a misfit, a twelve-year-old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant. He has been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember and diligently keeps track of them, large and small, in a log of lies. With an obsession for the Guinness Book of World Records, a keenly inquisit ...Show more
Carry Me Down by M J Hyland
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more than anything, he is determined to become a world-famous lie detecto ...Show more
Carry Me Down Text Classic by M. J. Hyland
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
John Egan lives with his mother, father and grandmother in rural Ireland. The Guinness Book of Records is his favourite book and he wants to visit Niagara Falls with his mother. But, more than anything, he is determined to become a world-famous lie detector, almost at any cost. Carry Me Down is written ...Show more
How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins by M.J. Hyland
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN is a cleverly observed, complex story of a girl on the verge of adulthood, whose world--like Holden Caulfield’s before her--is full of mixed messages. Louise Connor, a precocious and unhappy Australian 16-year-old, is offered a place as an exchange student in America. But when Lou’ ...Show more
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
If none is left who will pronounce judgment on such a life, if the Great Judge of All has given up judging and withdrawn to pare his nails, then he will pronounce it himself: a wasted chance. When a bicycle accident causes photographer Paul Rayment to lose a leg, he must reexamine his life so far, and ...Show more
This Is How by M. J. Hyland
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
M. J. Hyland is the award winning and Man Booker shortlisted author of Carry Me Down. Her third novel, This Is How, is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world. Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider longing to find his niche. When his fianc#65533; breaks off t ...Show more
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