Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is in on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the pu ...Show more
Ed King by GUTERSON DAVID
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1962, when Walter Cousins sleeps with his British au pair, Diane Burroughs, he can have no sense of the magnitude of his error: this brief affair sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles's immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire. At the centre is Ed King, an inf ...Show more
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents ha ...Show more
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship. When she leaves the ward, she feels the whiteness of the room still inside her, as if she is bleached out inside. It is the shock, she tells herself. She ...Show more
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home a ...Show more
The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university art teacher stands watching the grey sky blacken waiting for George Best's funeral cortege to pass. He will go to Amsterdam to see Bob Dylan in concert but also in t ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974 ...My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license ...record ...Show more
Salvage the Bones (Prize Winner National Book Award 2011) by Jesmyn Ward
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't mu ...Show more
Delicacy by David Foenkinos
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
He was passing by, she kissed him without thinking. Now she wonders whether she did the right thing. But Natalie isn't certain of anything anymore. One minute she was a happily married young woman, successful in her career and convinced the future was full of promise. But when her husband was run over b ...Show more
The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Mathematical genius. Brilliant engineer. Revered astronaut. Keith Corcoran is all of these things and more, but his otherworldly talents do nothing to prepare him for the tragedy that befalls his family, or its irrevocable outcomes. After a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, Keith ...Show more
Ignorance(2013 Women's Prize for Fiction - formerly Orange Prize longlist) by Michele Roberts
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
After every war there are stories that are locked away like bluebottles in drawers and kept silent. But sometimes the past can return: in the smell of carbolic soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the colour of an undelivered letter. Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angele Baudry grow up, si ...Show more
Finding Casey by Jo-Ann Mapson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Glory Vigil, newly married and unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is nesting in the home she and her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that is rumoured to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quic ...Show more