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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jess Walter's "Beautiful Ruins" is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian S ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from the shenanigans going on down the coast in Rome at the filming of Cleopatra. A few days late ...Show more
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From the author of the wonderful Beautiful Ruins comes an erudite and beguiling new novel. The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dream ...Show more
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of the bestselling Beautiful Ruins comes The Financial Lives of Poets - a brilliantly funny novel about a man who, in an attempt to save himself, may destroy everything he loves. Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journal ...Show more
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