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In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited GBP17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher, he ends up in the wrong chapel with one other mourner, too em ...Show more
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Andy Larkham is late. He is due at the funeral of his favourite school teacher, who once told him: 'It's hard work being anyone.' It's especially hard for Andy - stuck in a dead-end job, terminally short of cash and with a fiancee who is about to ditch him. When the funeral leads to unexpected consequen ...Show more
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. 'A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival, no ...Show more
Priscilla : The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France. "A most strange and compelling book driven by the writer's unsparing search for truth: now an optimistic hunt for a family heroine, now a study in female wiles of survival ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. Twelve years on, he must return to Australia to deal with his inheritance. But the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young wom ...Show more
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been mar ...Show more
Snowleg by Nicholas Shakespeare
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A powerful love story that explores the close, fraught relationship between England and Germany. A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her ...Show more
The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare
$27.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. Colonel Rejas was the policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla leader Ezequiel, but having been dismissed he finds the burden of silence and secrecy too heavy. On meeti ...Show more
The High Flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare
$0.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport stolen by a Gibraltarian ape and pre ...Show more
The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it - but also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated - a triumph' - William Boyd When John Dyer returns to Oxfor ...Show more
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