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News of the World by Paulette Jiles
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibil ...Show more
News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA #1 LibraryReads Pick2016 National Book Award FinalistIn the wake of the Civil War, a seventy-year-old retired army captain does live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. He is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan, raised by Kiowa r ...Show more
News of the World Movie Tie-In - A Novel by Paulette Jiles
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Tom Hanks It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his roo ...Show more
Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who ...Show more
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