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Barcelona Dreaming by Rupert Thomson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.The stories are narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pia ...Show more
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A taut, unsettling novel that expertly explores the psychology of a man, a marriage and a murderer. In November 2002, Billy Tyler, a police constable in his mid-forties, is summoned to the mortuary of a hospital in Suffolk. For the next twelve hours, from seven in the evening till seven in the evenin ...Show more
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A remarkable genre-defying novel: a vision, a fable, a love story, a ghost story... And then the night when my life began...A strange beginning. Soldiers, bright lights. The cold. And me being lifted, as if by surgeons, into a new world...It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, an eight year old ...Show more
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The breakthrough novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Insult and The Book of Revelation. It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment ...Show more
Katherine Carlyle by Rupert Thomson
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In the late 80s, Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF. Stored as a frozen embryo for eight years, she is then implanted in her mother and given life. By the age of nineteen Katherine has lost her mother to cancer, and feels her father to be an increasingly distant figure. Instead of going to college, ...Show more
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence at the turn of the twentieth century, the two young women embark on a clandestine love ...Show more
Secrecy by Rupert Thomson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
It is Florence, 1691. The Renaissance is long gone, and the city is a dark, repressive place, where everything is forbidden and anything is possible. The Enlightenment may be just around the corner, but knowledge is still the property of the few, and they guard it fiercely. Art, sex and power - these, a ...Show more
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