The Road Home by Rose Tremain
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise and witty book about the contemporary migrant experience. On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving. . . . Lev is on his way ...Show more
Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has a ...Show more
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
$36.90 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, comes a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning. Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. She wants it that way, or so she th ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (tr from French Sandra Smith)
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sixty-two years after an emigrant Russian Jew died at Auschwitz, her unpublished work about occupied France is taking the world by storm. 'Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book.' The Telegraph. 'A profoundly felt meditation on the nature of freedom, and the ...Show more
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that li ...Show more
Kept by D. J. Taylor
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. August 1863. Henry Irela ...Show more
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Who would believe that reading a novel written in deliberately bad English could be as uplifting an experience as this? But Xiaolu Guo, writing in English for the first time, has pulled it off in a novel that has the potential to be as successful as A History of Tractors in Ukranian or Lost in Translati ...Show more
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, and Japanese all ruled China, exploited, and fought one another, and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power. China Witness is a personal testimony from a normally silent generation, ...Show more
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake, are the sons of a local farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful, set to inherit the farm and his father
Four Letter Word : New Love Letters by Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter (eds)
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Whatever happened to the love letter? Has the written word lost its charm in our digitally obsessed, speed-dating age? In this inspired and unique collection of new fiction, Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have asked over forty celebrated writers to explore the potency and power of a classic - yet ne ...Show more
Love Me by Gemma Weekes
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Singer-poet Gemma Weekes turns to prose with a dazzling first novel about love: true and false.,br>Set between London and New York during one hot, sticky summer, Love Me tracks Eden's obsession with lyricist Zed, achingly cool and, to Eden, the most beautiful boy she's ever met. Paralysed by lust, Ed ...Show more
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Combining her trademark charm with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?Life is the st ...Show more