Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over twenty years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out and Libby is desp ...Show more
Self's Murder - OP by Bernhard Schlink
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Gerhard Self, the Sweet-Afton smoking, sambuca-swilling, most unlikely of PIs is back in a new tale of deception and intrigue, set against the backdrop of post-reunification Germany.After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to del ...Show more
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a novel that tells its story back to front, whose main character we meet when he is down on his luck, in his local French restaurant drowning his sorrows in the depths of two bottles of vintage Petrus. It hasn't taken all that long for Wilberforce, as we will only know him, to reach this point, ...Show more
The Angel Maker by Stefan Brijs
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
After many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return after an absence of many years generates a lot of interest - and suspicion - as he is accompanied by three triplets, all of whom share the same physical deformity as the doctor - a hare lip. These children are v ...Show more
The Ninth Stone by Kylie Fitzpatrick
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Amen Corner, London, 1864. Orphan Sarah O'Reilly has disguised herself as a boy so that she can work in the offices of Septimus Harding's newspaper, the London Mercury. She meets Lily Korechnya, a wealthy widow who writes a column for the paper under a pseudonym. Lily has been enlisted by Lady Cynthia ...Show more
The Lighted Rooms by Richard Mason
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Joan, once passionate and creative, is now trapped in an expensive care home, seeking comfort in the richer worlds of the past and her own mind. Eloise, her daughter, is a relentlessly disciplined businesswoman, torn between guilt and filial responsibility, who has gambled everything on a chance remark ...Show more
The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
After crashing and burning during his PhD viva, Mason Ambrose is offered a large amount of money to come to the Isla de Sangre to instruct the daughter of wealthy Edwina Sabachtani. He is to use his knowledge as a philosopher to instil a conscience, a moral compass, in Edwina's daughter Londa following ...Show more
Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern - his fortune in excess of 100 million and who should inherit it on his death. PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Baxter wishes ...Show more
The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The novel begins as Michael, a middle-aged man of means, is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the grand staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark ...Show more
The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Therefore when the doorbell rings late one night and a ...Show more
The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Set in the world of 1970s Manhatten theatre, The Confessions follows aspiring thesp Edward Day, his friends and associates, as they re-assess ideas of sexuality, duty and gratitude - and the wisdom of living as a jobbing actor. After Edward Day joins fellow actors for a summer weekend on the New Jersey ...Show more
An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for New Writers. Jennet Mallow is born in Yorkshire in the 1920s but her interest in art and creativity alienates her from her family, her father who is a priest, her conventional sister and her emotionally stunted mother. Jennet moves to London in search of a more exc ...Show more