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A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally's life is turned upside down wh ...Show more
Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story. How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried abou ...Show more
Isabelle In The Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradiction ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Woman in the Fifth and The Pursuit of Happiness comes a devastating new novel. Years after vowing to herself and her parents to never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose, Jane, now a Harvard professor, falls unexpectedly pregnant. Resolved as sh ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, e ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript cor ...Show more
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode. As she reads she wonders- When did the sadness start? And could it be that u ...Show more
The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But ...Show more
The Moment by Douglas Kennedy
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes a tragic love story set in Cold War Berlin. Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his daughter and still trying to reconcile himself ...Show more
The Moment by Douglas Kennedy
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin. But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. For she is the wom ...Show more