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Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens by Sofka Zinovieff
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
'We gazed transfixed across the small, strangely tropical bay at the bottom of the hill, and the surrounding palm trees and sandy beaches. Beyond the bay was the wide expanse of the Saronic Gulf, with its distant traffic of boats leaving for the islands and returning to the port at Piraeus.' This was So ...Show more
Putney by Sofka Zinovieff
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Among the hottest books of this blazing summer' (Daily Telegraph): a bold, lushly written novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measureIt is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house' ...Show more
Red Princess : A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In 1907, Princess Sophy ('Sofka') DolgorOuky was born in St Petersburg. Members of the Imperial family had attended her parents' wedding earlier that same year, and the child was born into a privileged world of nurses, private tutors and elegant tea parties. The Russian Revolution caused the princess to ...Show more
The House on Paradise Street by Sofka Zinovieff
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Athens, 1942 - two sisters divided by politics and tragedy...In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. Nikitas h ...Show more
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me by Sofka Zinovieff
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity - masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves - and his homosexuality. Before the war he made Faringdon an aesthete's paradise, ...Show more
The Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In 1907 Princess Sophy ('Sofka') Dolgorouky was born in St Petersburg. Members of the Imperial family had attended her parents' wedding earlier that same year, and the child was born into a privileged world of nurses, private tutors and elegant tea parties. The Russian Revolution caused the princess to ...Show more
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