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Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
Booth 10 copy pack by Karen Joy Fowler
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Includes 10 copies of Booth, shelftalker and a free reading copy.
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin; Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction by)
$49.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub."On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?"On breakfast: "Eatin ...Show more
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Words were invented so lies could be told' Mary Ellen Pleasant San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinst ...Show more
The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A brilliantly comic and intelligent literary mystery from Karen Joy Fowler, the bestselling Man Booker shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things - car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes t ...Show more
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition. Yellowing on pages, well read. In California's Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and ...Show more
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a funny and warm novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of bestselling hit The Jane Austen Book Club. 'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key ...Show more
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and in the aftermath of World War II, halcyon days have n ...Show more
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