One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 1951 and Holland Winchester, the local thug and a war veteran, has gone missing from his small, backwater South Carolina town. The local sheriff, Will Alexander, has a gut feeling Holland's been murdered but the sheriff can find neither the body nor the killer. He has his suspects but no evi ...Show more
Exley by Brock Clarke
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For ten-year-old Miller, who lives with his mother in Watertown, New York, life has become a struggle to make sense of his father's disappearance, for which he blames himself. Then, when he becomes convinced that he has found his father lying comatose in the local VA hospital, a victim of the war in Ira ...Show more
The Messenger by Yannick Haenel
$36.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Jan Karski, a young Polish diplomat turned cavalry officer, joined the Polish underground movement after escaping from a Soviet detention camp in 1939. He served as a courier for the underground, ferrying messages between occupied Poland and the exiled Polish leaders, before he was captured and brutally ...Show more
The Amateur Science of Love by Craig Sherborne
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Colin dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda; beautiful Tilda, older, an artist; who brings his future with her. A heady romance leads to a new home in a decaying former bank in a small town hours fr ...Show more
A Love Letter from a Stray Moon by Jay Griffiths
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths, acclaimed author of Wild, creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo, her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera, that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion. This edition contains a preface by John Berger. Sp ...Show more
The Book of Rachael by Leslie Cannold
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 3790 in the Hebrew calendar: 30 AD. A young man is travelling the countryside around the Sea of Galilee preaching a message of love and justice; a prophet is being made, and a martyr. But that story is well known. The young preacher, then known as Joshua of Nazareth, had a sister at home. Of ...Show more
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Text Myth Ser.
In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman reimagines the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and great power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ says something new about who Jesus was and asks questions that will resonate lo ...Show more
Griffith Review 34 : The Annual Fiction Edition by Julianne Schultz
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Georgia Blain, Barbara Brooks, Mette Jakobsen, Ben Law, Melissa Lukashenko and Chris Womersley. Griffith REVIEW' s highly anticipated third annual fiction collection explores islands, both geographical and personal. This assortment of new fiction from the best emerging and established writers from Austr ...Show more
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unli ...Show more
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
London, 1857: after surviving an encounter with an escaped tiger on the streets of Bermondsey, nine-year-old Jaffy stumbles into a job for its owner, the wild animal collector, Mr Jamrach. Commissioned by Jamrach to find and collect a sea dragon, Jaf soon joins a ship bound for the South Seas, and so be ...Show more
Let the Games Begin by Niccolo Ammaniti
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'How long's it been since we took the bloody oath?' Saverio shrugged. 'A few years.' Zombie pointed a grissino at his chief. 'In all this time, what have we ever accomplished?' 'All those things you promised...How many of them have we done?' Murder chimed in. 'You said we'd make loads of human sacrifice ...Show more