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Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe
$19.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novle of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him ...Show more
The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It is April 1945, and the historic town of Lohenfelde is about to be overrun by the Allied Third Army. Huddled in the vaults of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum are Heinrich Hoffer and his three colleagues. Their petty rivalries and resentments surface quickly in this claustrophobic confinement as the four pre ...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
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