The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning ...Show more
The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, the ...Show more
Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, Maria, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression.
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
When 12-year-old genius map-maker T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian, life as normal--if you consider mapping dinner table conversation normal--is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins. During his journey, T.S. discovers a secret family history in his lugg ...Show more
The Einstein Girl by Philip Sington
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Thirty years after his death, private correspondence between Albert Einstein and his first wife, the Serbian mathematician Mileva Maric, was opened to public scrutiny for the first time. It revealed glimpses of a tragedy at the heart of their troubled marriage: a secret they went to extraordinary length ...Show more
The House of Rajani by Alon Hilu
$43.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 1895, Jaffa. Salah Rajani, a troubled Muslim boy living in a dilapidated mansion surrounded by orange groves, suffers from peculiar visions about a disaster which is set to befall his people. His life is changed by the arrival of a handsome young man, a dynamic Jewish settler, new to the cit ...Show more
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while all the established patterns around him ...Show more
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favourite school teacher, who once told him: 'It's hard work being anyone.' It's especially hard for Andy - stuck in a dead-end job, terminally short of cash and with a fiancee who is about to ditch him. When the funeral leads to unexpected consequen ...Show more
Notwithstanding by Louis De Bernieres
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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A Different Sky by Meira Chand
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Singapore is a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free herself from its stifling traditions; ten-year-old Howa ...Show more
Savage Lands by Clare Clark
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Louisiana, 1704, and France is clinging on to a swampy corner of the New World with only a few hundred men. Into this precarious situation arrive Elizabeth Savaret, one of a group of young women sent from Paris to provide wives for the colonists, and Auguste Guichard, the only ship's boy to survive the ...Show more
The Elephant's Journey by Jose Saramago
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Solomon the elephant's life is about to be upturned. For two years he has been in Lisbon, brought from the Portuguese colonies in India. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for the Hapsburg archduke, Maximilian. It's a nice idea, since it avoids the Portuguese king offending his Luth ...Show more