wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Footballosophy: A boy's odyssey from the Highlands to Celtic Park to New Zealand
ISBN: 9781499168051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Iain Gillies grew up in a fishing village called Mallaig in the Highlands of Scotland. As a child he'd play football with fishing net corks because no one owned a proper football. But his dream was to play for the mighty Glasgow Celtic. As a teenager playing in the Highland League in the mid-1950s, he was spotted by a Celtic scout and soon he was at Parkhead, rubbing shoulders with football greats such as Jock Stein, Charlie Tully, Bobby Collins, Alec Boden and Bobby Evans and being coached by Celtic legends Jimmy McGrory and George Paterson. Iain Gillies was only to have one season in...
Iain Gillies grew up in a fishing village called Mallaig in the Highlands of Scotland. As a child he'd play football with fishing net corks because no...
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42,42 zł |
The Lizard Song
ISBN: 9781519660381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Lizard Song was the author's attempt in his early twenties to write New Zealand's darkest and most intensely bizarre piece of crime fiction. He may just have succeeded. He describes this novella as Kiwi Gothic and says the most surprising thing about it is that it was written before he'd discovered the diabolical delights of Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford.
The Lizard Song was the author's attempt in his early twenties to write New Zealand's darkest and most intensely bizarre piece of crime fiction. He ma...
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31,03 zł |
Just Breathe
ISBN: 9781505348507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Explosive, gritty and violent, Just Breathe is a hard-boiled crime novel set in South Auckland, New Zealand. It tells the story of a writer whose wife has just given birth and the trouble he gets into when a couple of gangsters try to recover a gambling debt off him and his brother in law. It is written by Angus Gillies with art provided by his wife Tui Emma Gillies.
Explosive, gritty and violent, Just Breathe is a hard-boiled crime novel set in South Auckland, New Zealand. It tells the story of a writer whose wife...
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44,43 zł |
Boom and Bust
ISBN: 9781508430544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Boom and Bust is a violent hard-boiled crime novel about a man forced into acts of desperation and depravity by debt. He is over-committed in the property market and is changing careers to have a crack as a real estate agent just as the Global Financial Crisis is about to hit. His timing couldn't be worse and the bodies are piling up around him as he tries to shoot his way out of trouble.
Boom and Bust is a violent hard-boiled crime novel about a man forced into acts of desperation and depravity by debt. He is over-committed in the prop...
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40,14 zł |
No Dreadlocks No Cry
ISBN: 9780473151645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their minds back to the Ruatoria Troubles. From 1985 to 1990 the township was terrorised by a Maori sect calling itself The Rastafarians. Their story is one of the most bizarre chapters in modern New Zealand history. Yet most Kiwis under the age of forty have never even heard of The Rastas or their reign of terror... until now.
When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their mi...
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62,52 zł |
Ngati Dread: Footsteps of Fire
ISBN: 9780473135225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their minds back to the Ruatoria Troubles. From 1985 until 1990 the township was terrorised by a cannabis-growing Maori sect calling itself the Rastafarians. Their story is one of the most bizarre chapters in modern New Zealand history. Yet most people have never heard of The Rastas or their reign of terror... until now.
When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their mi...
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62,46 zł |
Revelations
ISBN: 9780473195021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the third in a three-volume series about the Ruatoria Rastafarians. The Rastas terrorised the small town of Ruatoria on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island from 1985 to 1990. During this time more than thirty buildings, including houses, businesses, the police and fire stations, a primary school, churches and a marae, were burned. One Rasta was beheaded by another and the leader of the sect was shot and later died on the operating table. Revelations covers the latter years of the Rastas' reign of terror and the fatal clash between Rasta leader Chris Campbell and vigilante...
This is the third in a three-volume series about the Ruatoria Rastafarians. The Rastas terrorised the small town of Ruatoria on the East Coast of New ...
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58,04 zł |