South of Darkness by John Marsden
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The first novel for adults from Australia's master storyteller: John Marsden. Thirteen-year-old Barnaby Fletch is a bag-and-bones orphan in London in the late 1700s.Barnaby lives on his wits and ill-gotten gains, on streets seething with the press of the throng and shadowed by sinister figures. Life is ...Show more
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The New York TimesBestseller! "A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." --Malcolm Gladwell An extraordinary novel about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life devising ingenious hiding places for J ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any ...Show more
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Reilly has...written a novel that will have his die-hard fans rejoicing' Canberra Times It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the gr ...Show more
One Hundred Days of Happiness by Fausto Brizzi
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? For Lucio Battistini, it's a chance to spend the rest of his life the way he always should have - by making every moment count. Womanizing, imperfect, but loveable, Lucio Battistini has been thrown out of the house by his wife and is slee ...Show more
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, a magnificent new novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope. Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm T ib n's superb seventh novel i ...Show more
Burial Rites (H/B) by Hannah Kent
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of two men. Agnes is sent to wait on the farm of District Officer Jon Jonsson and his family, who are horrified and avoid Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant reverend appointed as Agnes's spiritual gu ...Show more
Cherry Season by Trish Morey
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Dan Faraday is too busy for love. With the long hours running the family orchard, he doesn't have time to date. If he did, he would be looking for someone that fits into his ten year plan. Someone traditional, reliable and dependable - someone like him. Someone the opposite of beautiful drifter Lucy Mar ...Show more
Selling The Dream by Hugh Mackay
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"If someone asked me who should write a satirical novel about the advertising business - someone with inside knowledge who could write well and was extremely clever and amusing - I'd say, 'See if Hugh Mackay is available.'" John ClarkeLincoln The Hunter is living the dream. Universally admired and terri ...Show more
The Good People by Hannah Kent
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. Based on true events and set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent's startling novel about absolute belief and devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling and moving in equal measure, this long-awaited follow-up to Burial Rites shows an aut ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now... Determined to enjoy her imminent retirement, Adele invites her fellow bibliophiles to help her house-sit in the Blue Mountains. It's a tantalising opportunity to spend a m ...Show more
Euphoria by Lily King
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance enc ...Show more