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Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
1914, and an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups are vying for control over the land and its many prizes. And S ...Show more
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1914, an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups - Turkish, German, English and American - are vying for control ...Show more
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, an Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a disgraced Liverpool slave-ship owner who hanged himse ...Show more
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"It is the spring of 1767, two years after the events of Barry Unsworth s Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger. Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Liverpool slave ship owner, has had the rebellious sailors of his father s ship brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. However, S ...Show more
The Ruby In Her Navel by Barry Unsworth
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Thurstan, a young Norman and would-be Knight at the Court of King Roger in Palermo, has been in love since boyhood with Lady Alicia, now returned a widow from the Holy Land. At the same time, he is enthralled by the earthy sensuality of the dancer, Nesrin, whose troupe he brings to Court to dance for th ...Show more
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