A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calender - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home fifty years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
Fifty years ago a girl called Elisabet Hansen disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb - and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9781858816234
Tender and enchanting as The Little Prince and with the same classic quality, HELLO? IS ANYBODY THERE? confirms Jostein Gaarder as an exceptional writer for children...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9780753811467
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:344
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9781861591838
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:310
Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child...more details Format:Paperback Pages:215
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9781857998658
Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to givehis sons lessons about Life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to Greece...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9780752818672
This gorgeous 12 month date book, sumptuously produced, designed and illustrated, is the perfect journal for those who know and have read Sophie's World...more details Format:Hardback
Ex-philosophy teacher Jostein Gaarder and Albert Knos stimulate 15 year old Sophieto ask those fundamental questions which have exercised the imaginations of Children Phiolosophers since the dawn of civilisation....more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9781842550502
A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calender - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home fifty years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
As Joachim opens, day by day, the windows in an old Advent calendar, a story emerges about a little girl called Elisabet who, fifty years ago...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:147
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:147
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 profound questions. The central mystery of the book is the story of the Orange Girl...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:151
In an old fairy story Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her he notices an amulet of amber around her neck...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9781858816364
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
The Solitaire Mystery weaves an astonishingly original tapestry of tales from the viewpoint of a twelve-year-old boy named Hans Thomas. On a car trip through Europe with his father...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9781858817699
It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecilia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel. As Cecelia lies ill in bed, and her family valiantly make their Christmas preparations in the knowledge that she is not going to get better...more details Format:Hardback Pages:176
As Cecilia lies ill in bed and her family valiantly make their Christmas preparations in the knowledge that she is not going to get better, an angel steps through her window...more details Format:Paperback Pages:161
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Jostein Gaarder
ISBN:9780753804612
A box of Ltin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocyphral invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcrpit of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced for chastity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Jostein Gaarder;Simon Moller PauletteVance
ISBN:9781427200877
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? From that strange--but irresistible--beginning...more details Format:CD
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Jostein Gaarder;Paulette Moller
ISBN:9780374530716
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, "Sophie's World "has fired the imagination of readers all over the world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:518
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Jostein Gaarder;Elizabeth Wells RosemaryRokkan
ISBN:9781559213950
THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY transcends all barriers. We all love a beadtime story and here we have a philosophical meditation wrapped in the simple clothes of a journey across Europe to Bethlehem...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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Gaarder Jostein
ISBN:9780297859444
The author of the massively successful "Sophie's World" returns with a love story and a novel of ideas, exploring the place of human consciousness in the universe Through five intense years in the 1970s...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256