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Lloyd Jones


Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. His previous novels and collections of stories include the award-winning The Book of Fame, Biografi, a New York Times Notable Book, Choo Woo, Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance and Paint Your Wife. Lloyd Jones lives in Wellington.

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The Man in the Shed
Written by Lloyd Jones

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-40033-8 (0-307-40033-6)

June 5, 2012 | $21.00

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The Man in the Shed
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307400338
Our Price: $21.00
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From the author of Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a collection written with Lloyd Jones's trademark precision and imaginative reach.
 
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats...

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The Man in the Shed
Written by Lloyd Jones

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-40035-2 (0-307-40035-2)

June 5, 2012 | $13.99

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The Man in the Shed
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307400352
Our Price: $13.99


From the author of Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a collection written with Lloyd Jones's trademark precision and imaginative reach.
 
A boy watches his mother hooked and reeled ashore by a fisherman. A couple give up their seats...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Book of Fame
Written by Lloyd Jones

Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39758-4 (0-307-39758-0)

June 7, 2011 | $19.95

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The Book of Fame
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307397584
Our Price: $19.95
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A glorious novel from the award-winning author of Mister Pip, now available as a trade paperback original from Vintage Canada.

The Book of Fame is a lyrical semi-fictional account of the 1905 All Black rugby tour of Europe - a tour that shaped New Zealand's identity, from which the players returned to...

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The Book of Fame
Written by Lloyd Jones

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36384-8 (0-307-36384-8)

June 7, 2011 | $13.99

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The Book of Fame
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307363848
Our Price: $13.99


A glorious novel from the award-winning author of Mister Pip, now available as a trade paperback original from Vintage Canada.

The Book of Fame is a lyrical semi-fictional account of the 1905 All Black rugby tour of Europe - a tour that shaped New Zealand's identity, from which the players returned to...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Hand Me Down World
Written by Lloyd Jones

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-40031-4 (0-307-40031-X)

June 7, 2011 | $19.95

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Hand Me Down World
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307400314
Our Price: $19.95
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From the author of the beloved, bestselling Mister Pip: a novel about a mother's search for her stolen child. A novel you can't stop thinking about.

A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days...

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Hand Me Down World
Written by Lloyd Jones

eBook | 256 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-40032-1 (0-307-40032-8)

November 2, 2010 | $13.99

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Hand Me Down World
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307400321
Our Price: $13.99


From the author of the beloved, bestselling Mister Pip: a novel about a mother's search for her stolen child. A novel you can't stop thinking about.

A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days...

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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
Written by Lloyd Jones

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36968-0 (0-307-36968-4)

October 29, 2010 | $13.99

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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307369680
Our Price: $13.99


Available in Canada for the first time from the author of Mister Pip

The two intertwined love stories in this brilliant novel take the reader from New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney, from the final days of WWI, to the present moment, and back again. Drawing on the intimate rhythms of...

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Biografi
Written by Lloyd Jones

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36969-7 (0-307-36969-2)

June 25, 2010 | $13.99

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Biografi
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307369697
Our Price: $13.99


Peter Shapello is a village dentist in Albania until one day he recieves a visit that changes his life - and an offer he can't refuse. He will become the double for Albania's Great Leader, Enver Hoxha, the man who stands in for him on official engagements. As the unnamed narrator...

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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37131-7 (0-307-37131-X)

February 24, 2009 | $13.99

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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307371317
Our Price: $13.99


After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda’s island, only one white person stays behind. Mr. Watts, whom the kids call Pop Eye, wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley, and he steps in to teach the children when there is no one else...

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Biografi
Written by Lloyd Jones

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39757-7 (0-307-39757-2)

November 25, 2008 | $19.95

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Biografi
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307397577
Our Price: $19.95
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Peter Shapello is a village dentist in Albania until one day he recieves a visit that changes his life - and an offer he can't refuse. He will become the double for Albania's Great Leader, Enver Hoxha, the man who stands in for him on official engagements. As the unnamed narrator...

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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
Written by Lloyd Jones

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39756-0 (0-307-39756-4)

August 26, 2008 | $19.95

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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307397560
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 


Available in Canada for the first time from the author of Mister Pip

The two intertwined love stories in this brilliant novel take the reader from New Zealand to Buenos Aires to Sydney, from the final days of WWI, to the present moment, and back again. Drawing on the intimate rhythms of...

Also available as an eBook.

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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97928-2 (0-676-97928-9)

May 20, 2008 | $21.00

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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676979282
Our Price: $21.00
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The Booker finalist and beloved novel that has taken the world by storm is now a major motion picture starring Hugh Laurie.

Thirteen-year-old Matilda lives on a copper-rich tropical island that has been shattered by war, from which the teachers have fled along with everyone else. Only one white man chooses...



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