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A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Praised as a "master storyteller" (The Wall Street Journal) and hailed for his "flawless use of language" (Boston Herald), Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is ...Show more
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Told in Sebastian Barry's characteristically beautiful prose, A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish soldiers f ...Show more
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself ...Show more
Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farmin a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late1950s Ireland. All about them the old green roads are being tarred, cars are being purchased, a way of life is about to disappear. Like two old rooks, they hold to their hill in Kelsha, cherish ...Show more
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'I am thinking of the days without end of my life...'. After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivi ...Show more
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author Costa Award Winner Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the two-time Man Booker short-listed author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson ...Show more
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things.' Narrated by Lilly Bere, the story opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. It then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War and follows her life through into the new worl ...Show more
The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures by Sebastian Barry
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit play, The Steward of Christendom; from his first Costa Book of the Year winning novel The Secret Scripture to his second, Days Without End, a dec ...Show more
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Man Booker Longlist 2008; Costa Best Book 2009 Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often w ...Show more