Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Second -hand book in fair condition. Obvious wear on cover, including creases and folded corners. Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other, but how will they ever know it? This novel is about destiny, acceptance and the tragedies and miracles of everyday life - a story about the power of love in al ...Show more
The Riders by Tim Winton
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Fred Scully waits at the arrival gate of an international airport, anxious to see his wife and daughter. After two years in Europe they are finally settling down. He sees a new life before them, a stable outlook again, a fresh start, a cottage in the Irish countryside that he's renovated by hand. He's w ...Show more
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamilia ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless l ...Show more
The Book Of Evidence by John Banville
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Frames Ser.
The first in a trilogy with "Ghosts" and "Athena". Freddie Montgomery is a gentleman first and a murderer second. He committed two crimes - he stole a painting from a wealthy family friend and he killed a chambermaid who caught him in the act. Here he tells his story. First published 1989.
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An amazing story about a journey, and - more importantly - a return home. Snow geese spend their Summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware, California and the Gulf of Mexico. In the Spring they fly north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and ...Show more
The New Girl by Emily Perkins
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A hip alternative to the babble of 'chick-lit' Julia, Rachel and Chicky, best friends since they can remember, have lived all their lives in one small town. Now, they have finished school and must set a course for the rest of their lives. But the choices which they face are far from clear-cut, especia ...Show more
Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom
$22.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The second in C J Sansom's remarkable historical crime series.It's 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Shardlake has lived quietly, building up his legal practice and avoiding politics. However, his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of killing her young cousin, b ...Show more
Midnight Cactus by Bella Pollen
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
To the south lies Mexico. To the north you can see the flat plains and snow tipped peaks of the Patagonia Mountains ...and in between is a strange and wild landscape representing a freedom so great that for a long moment, I find it hard to breathe. On the run from her claustrophobic marriage in London, ...Show more
The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte (tr from Spanish Andrew Hurley)
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Spanning continents and decades and encompassing sensuality, cruelty, treachery and corruption, this is P
Big Fat Love by Peter Sheridan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A delectable tale of life, love and redemption from the author of 44: A Dublin Memoir, and Forty-Seven Roses. When Philo knocks on the door of the Good Shepherd convent seeking sanctuary from her husband Tommo, it's not just her own life she's about to overhaul. Swearing and smoking like a trooper, s ...Show more