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Land of the Living by Georgina Harding
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival, rendered in prose of rhythmic precision, subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, by the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Painter of Silence'Arresting and brutal ... the finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to ...Show more
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 Iasi, Romania, the early 1950s. A man is found on the steps of a hospital, frail as a fallen bird. He carries no identification and utters no words, and it is days before anyone discovers that he is deaf and mute. And then a young nurse called Safta bring ...Show more
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship. When she leaves the ward, she feels the whiteness of the room still inside her, as if she is bleached out inside. It is the shock, she tells herself. She ...Show more
The Gun Room by Georgina Harding
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photograph ...Show more
The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season, though no man has yet been known to have survived a winter th ...Show more
The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It is August 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured deep into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season, though no man has yet been known to have survived a winter thi ...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
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