The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The agent Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss, Mark ...The bestseller Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and lover Anton celebrate by spending the advance for her second book ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri ...Show more
The Shakespeare Miscellany by David Crystal
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and the context in which he worked. Put together by an actor and a linguist - the pair who brought you Shake ...Show more
Finding Myself by Toby Litt
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Bestselling novelist Victoria About has a plan. She's going to invite eleven of her friends to stay in a house by the sea for a month. There'll be games, bed-hopping and other shenanigans. In fact, plenty of material for her next book. Except things don't quite go according to Victoria's wishes. For a s ...Show more
A Calculating Heart by Caro Fraser
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Just out of yet another scandal, electrifying and libidinous Leo Davis has finally decided to settle down. He's going to sell up his Belgravia pad and buy a family home for his son, Oliver. And, he's going to marry the lovely Camilla. Or is he? With Camilla working on a case halfway across the world, Le ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'An astonishing feat' - "The Times". A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle En ...Show more
The Seymour Tapes by Tim Lott
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Dr Alex Seymour seems to have it all - but then a simple trip to the local supermarket changes things irrevocably. Alex Seymour starts thinking about his own seemingly perfect domestic situation, and what he does not see. This is a story of suspense that mirrors modern preoccupations with surveillance, ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his intimate journals. His life spans the 20th century and his travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa. We meet his three wives, and notaries from the worlds of royalty and literature. Every life is both ...Show more
Mr Paradise by Elmore Leonard
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In hindsight, Victoria's Secret model Kelly Barr thinks maybe it wasn't such a great idea to accompany her callgirl roommate Chloe to Tony Paradiso's house. The wealthy, eighty-four-year-old retired Motor City lawyer's idea of fun was innocent enough: watching old Michigan football games on TV while a s ...Show more
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astrono ...Show more
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell by Jonathan Safran Foer
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Presents pieces of prose and poetry that engage literature with art.