Johnny Come Home by Jake Arnott
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's 1972 and as the dreams of the sixties give way to anger and political unrest, the charismatic anarchist Declan O'Connell commits suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson and fellow squatter Nina to try to make sense of what has happened. Enter Sweet Thing, a streetwise rent boy, who has an uncanny h ...Show more
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, ...Show more
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor -- covert stammerer and reluctant poet -- anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands Wa ...Show more
Rifling Paradise by Jem Poster
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When past indiscretions catch up with Charles Redbourne, a minor English landowner, he is propelled from England to Australia, where he plans to make his mark as a naturalist. There, his life begins to change dramatically, not least when he meets his host's wayward, artistic daughter. But it is on an ex ...Show more
The Land of Painted Caves ( #6 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth's Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tas ...Show more
The Optimists by Andrew Miller
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
This is an exceptionally powerful new novel from the Booker-short-listed author of "Oxygen". Clem Glass was a successful photo-journalist, fired by his conviction that only photographs could capture the world's true face. Then, in Africa, he witnesses the grotesque aftermath of a massacre and returns to ...Show more
Brand New Friend by Mike Gayle
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a jewel in our commercial fiction crown for spring 2006. This is the latest paperback from Mike Gayle, the king of relationship comedy - no argument. When Rob's girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester, not only will it mean moving cities, it'll also mean leaving behin ...Show more
Something Rotten: Thursday Next Book 4 by Jasper Fforde
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Thursday Next Ser.
The fourth book in the ingenious Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. 'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a ...Show more
Nelson's Daughter by Miranda Hearn
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In a farmhouse near Calais, a lonely English girl pieces together the life of the legendary Admiral Nelson - the loving godparent she learnt was in fact her father only after his death. What no one tells Horatia is that her companion-in-exile, NelsonâÂÂs mistress Emma Hamilton, is also her mother. ...Show more
The Emperor's Bones by Williams Adam
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is twenty years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background a bittersweet, triangular love affair develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. And all the while, she is trying to uncover the truth of her past ...Show more