The Sonnets by Warwick Collins
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good to very good
Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems. No one knows for sure precisely when and where Shakespeare wrote his sonnets or, more intriguingly, who he wrote them for. In this wonderfully entertaining novel acclaimed author Warwick Collins imagine ...Show more
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors.
The Sorrow of War : A novel - out of print by Bao Ninh (English version Frank Palmos, from trans by Phan Thanh Hao)
$19.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is the semi-autobiographical account of a soldier's experiences. The hero of the story, Kien, is a captain. After 10 years of war and months as a MIA body-collector, Kien suffers a nervous breakdown in Hanoi as he tries to re-establish a relationship with his former sweetheart.
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from a woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York City, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man ...Show more
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Sorrows of an Americanis a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be impl ...Show more
The Sound of Gravity by Joe Simpson
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A thrilling and moving new novel from the acclaimed author of Touching the Void. As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed. The Sound of Gravity is a harrowing, dramatic and powerful tale of love, loss and redemption as that haunting split-second memory changes the co ...Show more
The South: Picador Classic by Colm Toibin
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Roy Foster A classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has ...Show more
The Spa Decameron by Fay Weldon
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ten high achieving ladies are gathered in the week between Christmas and the New Year at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives. Sparkling, witty, always compassionate and occasionally libidinous, Fay Weldon's new no ...Show more
The Spa Decameron by Fay Weldon
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives.
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
$36.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Devastating in its power, remarkable in its achievement, here is a searing, addictively readable novel that vividly captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India - witnessed through the lives of two compelling women bound by friendship and loss, yet separated by blood and class ...Show more
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her ...Show more