In Dahlia's Wake by Yona Zeldis McDonough
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's a beautiful summer's morning. Naomi Wechsler is at home, waiting for her husband, Rick, and their seven-year-old daughter, Dahlia, to return home from their shopping trip. Naomi takes a shower, potters round the house, waters the garden, and wonders, idly, what's taking them so long. Then the t ...Show more
Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinkin ...Show more
The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\Raj Quartet
Keynote: - The third title in Paul Scott's masterpiece, The Raj Quartet, dramatised by Radio 4 Contents: - It is the last, bitter days of World War II and the British Raj in India is crumbling. Ensconced in the Indian Hill Station of Pankot are the English wives, mothers, daughters and widows of the off ...Show more
The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Beautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world. The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the re ...Show more
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Arthur and Jake: brothers, yet worlds apart. Arthur is older, shy, dutiful, and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger and reckless, a dangerous to know. When Laura arrives in their 1930s rural community, an already uneasy relationship is driven to breaking point...
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
$26.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient Afric ...Show more
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\Raj Quartet
"BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTET India 1942- everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality a ...Show more
Angels by Denis Johnson
$27.00 NZD
$28.00 (3% off)
Category: World fiction
'A dazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. So begins a stunning, tragi ...Show more
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Daring and provocative... Startlingly original' New York Times The nuclear holocaust has been and gone, and now everything is different. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wrigh ...Show more
Staying On by Paul Scott
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyran ...Show more
My Father's War by Adriaan Van Dis
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
My Father's War is the gripping story of a son's struggle to understand his family's wartime experience in a Japanese concentration camp, and to come to terms with its effects on him. Born in Holland after the Second World War, the boy grows up as an outsider in the midst of his part-Indonesian family. ...Show more
Honor and Evie by Susannah Bates
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Honor and Evie: cousins and best friends, yet so very different. Honor is intelligent, beautiful and popular - good fortune seems to fall into her lap. But for Evie life is harder. Honor adores Evie for her unconventionality, her honesty and her naughty sense of humour - although others find Evie prickl ...Show more