The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility, love, honor, tradition, and identity, in which two childhood friends a young doctor and a newly married bride must balance the expectations of their culture and ...Show more
The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of charac ...Show more
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibil ...Show more
The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperi ...Show more
The Atomic City Girls: A Novel by Janet Beard
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has sprung up in a matter of months-a town of trailers and segregated houses, twent ...Show more
Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
"In this masterful performance, Bryn Chancellor explores the loss around which an entire community has calcified with humanity and wisdom. Chancellor digs deep in these pages, unearthing broken hearts, secrets, betrayals, passion and--most impressively--grace. What a joy to find a book that is both prop ...Show more
Everybody's Son: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families--one black, one white.Duri ...Show more
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (and Their Muses) by Terri-Lynne DeFino
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess--lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he's co ...Show more
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar's beloved national bestseller The Space between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel--a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her ...Show more
Bearskin: A Novel by James A. McLaughlin
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Bearskin is visceral, raw, and compelling--filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It's a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin's writing had me doing just t ...Show more
The Lost Vintage - A Novel by Ann Mah
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"If you enjoyed my Sarah's Key and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you." -- Tatiana de RosnaySweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost ...Show more
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might ...Show more