The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. 'You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I created this world with my own two ha ...Show more
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. 'You and I are family. Blood and treasure. Listen to me, I cre ...Show more
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent losses - his preferred career has ended, his wife has divorced him, and a tragic accid ...Show more
The Spy by Paulo Coelho
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless.Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city.A dancer who shocked and delighted audiences, as a confidante and courtesan she bewitched the era?s richest and most powerful men.But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari?s lifestyle br ...Show more
The Spy Game by Georgina Harding
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'If you were a sleeper, how long do you think it would take before you forgot who you really were? If you were living undercover for years and years. Which person would be you?' On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. A kiss that barely touches Anna's ...Show more
The Standing Chandelier: A Novella by Lionel Shriver
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Condition: **NEW** 'This early stocking filler of a novel ... is a brutal treat' Daily MailFrom the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, comes a literary gem, a story about love and the power of a gift. When Weston Babansky receives an extravagant engagement present from hi ...Show more
The Standing Pool by Adam Thorpe
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two Cambridge academics, the historians Nick and Sarah Mallinson, take a sabbatical with their three small and lively girls in a remote Languedoc farmhouse. But the farmhouse contains its own histories, far darker and murkier than the Mallinsons are used to dealing with. As the illusion of Eden retreats ...Show more
The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Jason Prosper grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old boy prep schools and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best frie ...Show more
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: ...Show more
The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy.Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the d ...Show more
The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERWashington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017 From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic ...Show more