Lloyd Jones




Lloyd Jones

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place of birth
Lower Hutt, New Zealand

genre
Literature & Fiction, Children's Books


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Lloyd Jones was born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a place which has become a frequent setting and subject for his subsequent works of fiction. He studied at Victoria University, and has worked as a journalist and consultant as well as a writer. His recent novels are: Biografi (1993); Choo Woo (1998); Here At The End of the World We Learn to Dance (2002); Paint Your Wife (2004);and Mister Pip (2007). He is also the author of a collection of short stoires, Swimming to Australia (1991).



In 2003, he published a children's picture book, Napoleon and the Chicken Farmer, and this was followed by Everything You Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (2004), a book for 9-14 year olds. He compiled Into the Field of...more




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Mister Pip Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 3.67 — 1,471 ratings — published 2006
25 editions
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Here At the End of the World W... Here At the End of the World We Learn to Dance
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 2.97 — 66 ratings — published 2001
7 editions
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Biografi: A Traveler's Tale Biografi: A Traveler's Tale
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 1993
3 editions
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The Book of Fame The Book of Fame
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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My First Colouring Book My First Colouring Book
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009
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Mr Cassini Mr Cassini
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2006
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Choo woo Choo woo
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1998
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Plight of Man and the Power of... Plight of Man and the Power of God
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1982
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This House Has Three Walls This House Has Three Walls
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
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Everything You Need to Know ab... Everything You Need to Know about the World by Simon Eliot
by Lloyd Jones
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
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"You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames."
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"I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates. "
Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip)
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""Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.""
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