The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang ...Show more
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image - inspired by a horrific true event - to spin us into a spellbinding, heartbreaking story about cruelty and innocence ...Show more
The Complete Ankh-Morpork Street Guide by Terry Pratchett
$60.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Discworld
Greetings, adventurer! We lay before you this most comprehensive gazetteer encompassing all the streets of Ankh-Morpork, as well as information on its principal businesses, hotels, taverns, inns, and places of entertainment and refreshment, enhanced by the all-new and compleat map of our great city stat ...Show more
Half Sick of Shadows by David Logan
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the eve of Granny Hazel's burial in the back garden, a stranger in his time machine - a machine that bears an uncanny resemblance to a Morris Minor - visits five year-old Edward with a strange request. And Edward agrees to be his friend. But Edward is not alone in the world. His twin sister Sophia is ...Show more
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland whe ...Show more
In One Person by John Irving
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Spanning fifty years, In One Person is an breathtaking examination of sexual identity. A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual ...Show more
Balancing Act by Joanna Trollope
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Susie Moran is a success. She has founded and run her own highly profitable company, and now her three daughters are all involved in the business. Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects of distinctive design, Susie is justly proud of her family ...Show more
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
As we grow older - most of all, in what we remember and what we dream - we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but his dreams and memories will travel with him; he is most alive in his childho ...Show more
A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String by Joanne Harris
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Stories are like Russian dolls; open them up, and in each one you'll find another story.' Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris' exceptional storytelling art. Sensuous, wicked, mischievous, uproarious and wry, here are tales tha ...Show more
The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane - as she embarks ...Show more
The Sunshine Years by Afsaneh Knight
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Do you ever wonder where your life is going? Do you worry that you might wake up in the morning and suddenly be old? You are not alone. Story (that's his name) can feel a middle-youth - or is that middle-age? - crisis coming on. He's got a great job, a great flat, and great mates: Mac, who is obsessed w ...Show more
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A coming-of-age story set in 18th century Virginia. 'You must not become too friendly with them,' she said. 'They are not the same as us.' 'How?' I asked. 'How are they not the same?' 1791: When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantati ...Show more