Sutton by J. R. Moehringer
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control Over three decades, from Pr ...Show more
Sutton by J. R. Moehringer
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control Over three decades, from Pr ...Show more
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the ...Show more
Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples.
Swallowtail Summer by Erica James
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It was the summer it all ended . . . It was the summer a new story began. Linston End has been the summer home to three families for several decades. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year-old, must battle to save it. After the death of her beautiful and legendary mother, Swamplandia!, Ava's island home in the Florida Everglades, is under threat from a nearby competitor; her sister Osce ...Show more
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
After the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing. But while Montana might seem an unspoilt paradise peopled by men and women from an earlier, mor ...Show more
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
They told him everything.He told everyone else. Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears. On exclusive yachts sailing the Mediterranean, on private jets streaming towards Jamaica, on Yucatán beaches in secluded bays, they gossiped about sex, ...Show more
Swanfolk by Kristin Omarsdottir
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An astonishing dystopian novel about a woman's discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elisabet's work is the lynchpin of her ...Show more
Swastika Night by Murray Constantine
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished ...Show more
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$19.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more