Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her past erased, her future uncertain. The well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine ...Show more
Another Country by Anjali Joseph
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning Saraswati Park. "They'd discussed it earlier, in the days of their friendship: the need to reach a certain phase in one's life, to become a householder, to enter the world and leave behind the selfish days of youth." Paris, London, Bo ...Show more
The Living by Anjali Joseph
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In this tender, lyrical, and often funny novel, Anjali Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty, and truth. There is a certain number of breaths each of us have to take, and no amount of care or carelessness can alter that. This is the story of t ...Show more
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller 'Notes from an Exhibition, returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. 'Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason?, 'I,m going to die.' 'We're all going to die. Does dying frighten you?' 'I mean I'm going to ...Show more
The Skull and the Nightingale by Michael Irwin
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Set in England in the early 1760s, this is a chilling and deliciously dark tale of manipulation, sex, and seduction. When Richard Fenwick, a young man without family or means, returns to London from the Grand Tour, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a fa ...Show more
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories. Meredith ' ...Show more
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The author of 'The House of the Spirits' returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction. Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, the teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong cro ...Show more
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong? Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. At schoo ...Show more
The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger by David Nobbs
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The much-anticipated latest novel from David Nobbs is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and is as witty as it is prescient. When revelations about the scandalous relationships and less than honest business practices of Sir Gordon Coppinger - infamous financier and devotee o ...Show more
The Bathing Women by Tie Ning
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An important chronicle of modern China. A testimony to the power of female friendship. A beautiful novel of love and redemption. Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They also witnessed the death of their baby sister ...Show more
The Bathing Women by Tie Ning
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold. Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They also witnessed the death of their baby sister in a tragic accident ...Show more
Sutton by J. R. Moehringer
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control Over three decades, from Pr ...Show more