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A Grief Observed - Readers' Edition by C. S. Lewis; Jenna Bailey; Maureen Freely; Hilary Mantel; Jessica Martin; Kate Saunders; Francis Spufford; Rowan Williams
$29.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, ...Show more
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
I May Be Some Time by Francis Spufford
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
$37.99 NZD
Category: No Category
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
The Antarctic : An anthology by Francis Spufford (ed)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"The Antarctic" features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the South Pole. Contributors include British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Japanese and Russian explorers such as Er ...Show more
The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Child that Books Built is Francis Spufford's celebrated memoir and investigation into childhood and reading.
The Ends of the Earth : An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (Boxed set of 2 hardcovers) by Elizabeth Kolbert & Francis Spufford (eds)
$85.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
"The Ends of the Earth" is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic.Contributors include: Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Ha ...Show more
The Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a h ...Show more
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