The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
With the inventive acuity of John Irving, this riveting picaresque novel chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from ...Show more
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine. Colette knows the solace a drink can provide, being partial t ...Show more
The Piano Shop On The Left Bank by T E Carhart
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. Pianos were everywhere- they swelled and shrank in the heat of the colonies, they were in every genteel home, in restaurants, on steamsh ...Show more
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Two children: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance. Two women: Lola, their mother, and Nonie, their aunt, who for mysterious reasons is the one to raise them. Lark and Termite imaginatively enters the hearts and thoughts of a family, from their home in 1950 ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
A special anniversary edition of the bestselling and much-loved classic published for the centenary of the First World War. A novel of overwhelming emotional power, Birdsong is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 t ...Show more
Lustrum: From the Sunday Times bestselling author by Robert Harris
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Cicero Trilogy
Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stori ...Show more
Cryptonomicon (PB) by Neal Stephenson
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1942 Waterhouse is assigned to Detachment 2702 on a secret mission to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. Shaftoe is the translator. In the present Waterhouse's grandson teams up with Shaftoe's granddaughter they find a massive cons ...Show more
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
$29.95 NZD
Category: World fiction
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with ...Show more
The Confusion (Baroque #2) by Neal Stephenson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The\Baroque Cycle Ser.
Neal Stephenson continues his extraordinary 'Baroque Cycle' in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery. It is the late 1600s, on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the oar ...Show more
Back Trouble by Clare Chambers
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the brink of 40, newly single with a failed business, Philip thought he'd reached an all-time low. It only needed a discarded chip on a South London street to lay him literally flat. So, bedbound and bored, Philip writes the story of his life, only to reveal some comic and touching surprises.
The Pursuit of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
#1 International Bestseller "Kennedy tells his epic tale with a keen eye and brisk pace.... a winningly sincere love story." --Publishers Weekly Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was ...Show more