Where the Truth Lies by Karina Kilmore
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Shortlisted for the same award that launched The Dry, Karina Kilmore's Where the Truth Lies introduces a major new crime-writing talent. In this clever and explosive thriller, a feisty but flawed investigative journalist battles unexplained deaths, big business, trade unions and media manipulation amids ...Show more
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (FTI) by Maria Semple
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Film tie in
To her Microsoft- guru husband, Bernadette is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private- school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15- year- old Bee, she's a best friend and, simply, Mom. Bee has aced her report card and claimed her ...Show more
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'You'll recognise every character in Whisper Network. Furious and relevant writing: the ultimate #metoo book. I loved it so much.' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'If only you had listened to us, none of this would have happened.' Sloane, Ardie, Grace and Rosalita have worked in the same legal office for years. The su ...Show more
White Dog (Jack Irish #4) by Peter Temple
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Jack Irish Novels Ser.
Jack Irish--gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found--has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap. Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about property developer Mickey Franklin's death, an ...Show more
White Houses by Amy Bloom
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok. Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presiden ...Show more
White Houses by Amy Bloom
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers. In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter ...Show more
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? (Mini Modern Classics) by Hans Fallada
$3.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It was what we call in the trade a potato . . . 'Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.
Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions by Patricia Marx
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast. Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx's knows better. Patty has never been ab ...Show more
Why Mummy Doesn't Give a... by Gill Sims
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Condition: **NEW** Mummy dreams of a quirky rural cottage with roses around the door and chatty chickens in the garden. Life, as ever, is not going quite as she planned. Paxo, Oxo and Bisto turn out to be highly rambunctious, rather than merely chatty, and the roses have jaggy thorns. Her precious m ...Show more
Wild Fires by Sophie Jai
$33.92 NZD
Category: World fiction
Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it. The only things Cassandra knows about her family are the stories she's heard in snatches over the years: about the aunt and cousin she never got to meet, about the man from the folded-up photograph in one of her aunt's drawers, ...Show more
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A controversial bestseller from one of Norway's most intelligent and highly-regarded novelists When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her ...Show more
Wind/ Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami's earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by ...Show more