The Abyssinian Proof by Jenny White
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine empire, as 7000 armed men prepare to defend the city against the might of the Ottoman Turks, Isaak and his family are entrusted with a purple velvet bundle. Inside is a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and an inscript ...Show more
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in an instant, the meaning ...Show more
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The God of Animals is the story of the coming of age of 13-year-old narrator Alice Winston: lonely, unloved and eager to escape her dysfunctional family and small-town life. Her father runs a struggling horse barn in a small desert town in the American South-West; her mother has been mysteriously ill fo ...Show more
The Dante Trap by Arnaud Delalande
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Venice, 1756. One of the city's brightest young actors has been brutally murdered: nailed to a cross in the theatre where he was due to perform, with his eyes put out, and lines of Latin verse carved onto his chest. The Doge, aware the city is full of enemies of the Republic, launches a secret investiga ...Show more
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect.
How Animals Have Sex by GIDEON DEFOE
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From snake bundles to snail love-darts - a fully-illustrated, animal lover's guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and smallLesbian lizards; intercourse that lasts for six months; mind-control sperm; dance competitions and cannibalism. In the world of animal sex there is apparently nothing ...Show more
The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Inigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will fin ...Show more
The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Murder, mystery and romance at the Ottoman CourtIt is the Rumi year 1302 or 1886 by the Christian calendar. The setting is Istanbul where the naked body of a white woman had been found floating in the Bosphorus. Around her neck is a pendant that contains the tughra, the Sultan's seal - a signature that ...Show more
The King's Gold by Arturo Perez-Reverte
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet. As various factions within ...Show more
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over twenty years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out and Libby is desp ...Show more
Self's Murder - OP by Bernhard Schlink
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Gerhard Self, the Sweet-Afton smoking, sambuca-swilling, most unlikely of PIs is back in a new tale of deception and intrigue, set against the backdrop of post-reunification Germany.After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to del ...Show more
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a novel that tells its story back to front, whose main character we meet when he is down on his luck, in his local French restaurant drowning his sorrows in the depths of two bottles of vintage Petrus. It hasn't taken all that long for Wilberforce, as we will only know him, to reach this point, ...Show more