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Light Shining in the Forest by Paul Torday
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account, new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Children's Czar ne ...Show more
Light Shining in the Forest by Paul Torday
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account, new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Children's czar ne ...Show more
More Than You Can Say by Paul Torday
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Tell you what, Leader, do you want to double your money?" "Double or quits?" "Of course double or quits. I'm having lunch at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford tomorrow with my uncle. If you can join us by one o'clock sharp tomorrow, I'll tear up this cheque and write you another for six thousand pounds" It ...Show more
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to t ...Show more
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen. This is a witty and moving satire on government ineptitude which will appeal to men and women equally. There is a wickedly wonderful cast ...Show more
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
An extraordinary, beguiling bestselling tale of fly-fishing and political spinning, of unexpected heroism and late-blooming love...This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on c ...Show more
The Death of an Owl by Paul Torday
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when a barn owl flies into his windscreen. It is an accident, nothing more. But Andrew sits on a parliamentary committee concerned with the protection of endangered species, and the death of the owl threatens to destroy his hopes of ...Show more
The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The novel begins as Michael, a middle-aged man of means, is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the grand staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark ...Show more
The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Michael is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark green dress. During dinner, Michael comments on the pai ...Show more
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A modern A TALE OF TWO CITIES by the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN. Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and b ...Show more
The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A modern TALE OF TWO CITIES by the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
This is a novel that tells its story back to front, whose main character we meet when he is down on his luck, in his local French restaurant drowning his sorrows in the depths of two bottles of vintage Petrus. It hasn't taken all that long for Wilberforce, as we will only know him, to reach this point, ...Show more