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Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Richie Cathar's father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist and historian. He was also a man of the sixties: a fantasist, absentee parent and drug abuser. Alaric named his son after his hero, Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him little when he died apart from conflict ...Show more
Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Richard Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. Richard remembers his recently-deceased father, Alaric, as a delusional hippy, who saw himself as an intellectual and historian. Following in his father's footsteps, Richard travels to Jerusalem where he falls deeply in love with N ...Show more
Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The venerable bank of Tubal & Co is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-year history - it was bailed out by Rothschilds' in 1847 - but this time will be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of rather important facts need to be kept hidden, especially from any potential bu ...Show more
Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is in on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the pu ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Judds, formerly of London N1, now scattered, are about to be thrown together again by the eldest child JulietâÃÂÃÂs release from prison in New York. The family is devastated by Juliet's conviction for art theft. The nature of this theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
$39.95 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
The Promise of Happiness is a tour de force, an elegy to the idiocies and intricacies of family life and family love.Charles Judd stands peeing on small molluscs on a Cornish Beach.His wife Daphne is struggling with a Rick Stein recipe in the kitchen of a lime-washed house nearby.Their youngest daughter ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century by Justin Cartwright
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. At home, his wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe. Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. The third, the prodigal daughter Juliet, is being released from prison in ...Show more
The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two Oxford friends find their friendship destroyed by the rise of the Nazis. On 20th July, l944 Adolf Hitler escaped death by a miracle in a failed bomb. He found the main conspirators, had them hung from meathooks and their executions filmed. Axel Count Von Gottberg, is one of those hanged by Hitl ...Show more
The Song Before it is Sung by Justin Cartwright
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Ely ...Show more
This Secret Garden : Oxford Revisited (The 'Writer and the City' series) by Justin Cartwright
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Travel | Series: The\Writer and the City Ser.
Part of a series called 'The Writer and the City'. Cartwright has returned to his old university, spoken to many leading figures, looked at his favourite places, subjected himself to am English tutorial, attended the freshers' dinner in his old college, studied various works of art, libraries and museum ...Show more
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