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Orkney by Amy Sackville
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the ...Show more
Painter to the King by Amy Sackville
$33.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and inc ...Show more
Painter to the King by Amy Sackville
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of brilliance, imagination, intrigue and style -- about the painter Velazquez and his royal subject and benefactor, King Philip IV of Spain.
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood. A hundred y ...Show more
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