The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared', this is a tale of how one young woman's attempt to change her future ends up changing everything. On 14th June 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantl ...Show more
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
As delightfully wry and witty as his bestselling debut, 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared', this is a tale of how one woman's attempt to change her future ended up changing everything. Nombeko Mayeki is on the run from the world's most ruthless secret service - with th ...Show more
The Bees by Laline Paull
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. B ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Shriver's intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more
Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Farseer | Reading Level: very good
'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The gripping finale to Robin Hobb's classic Farseer Trilogy. With the king no longer living and the heir, Verity, missing and declared dead, Prince Regal has treacherously seized the throne. Regal's torture has left Fitz more dead than alive, and mo ...Show more
Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: Adult
In many ways, my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. It's when life started in earnest HERTFORDSHIRE, 1928 The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. And so begins a love story that finds its feet by a lake o ...Show more
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisa ...Show more
Dressmaker of Dachau by Mary Chamberlain
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Spanning the intense years of war, The Dressmaker of Dachau is a dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival. It is the compelling story of one young woman's resolve to endure and of the choices she must make at every turn - choices which will contain truths she must confront. London, spring ...Show more
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'What if the man who invented chemical weapons was also a grandfather, and what if his great-grandchildren grew up to be three hilarious, introverted, deeply-haunted sisters? And what if those sisters co-wrote a fascinating, funny, and deeply sad 350-page suicide note? Then you'd have A REUNION OF GHOST ...Show more
Children of the Master by Andrew Marr
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
MARR IS BACK...AND BETTER THAN EVER The Prime Minister's days are numbered. The Master, a shadowy figure from his party's past, plans to replace him with someone he can manipulate to his own ends. But who will he choose? Two candidates stand out: David Petrie, a handsome, self-made Scot with a troubled ...Show more
Mislaid by Nell Zink
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.' Jonathan Franzen Virginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee, a blue-bloo ...Show more