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Fascination by William Boyd
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
This title presents sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, ...Show more
Fascination by William Boyd
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995). Described as "the finest storyteller of his generation", Boyd shows his mastery of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. ...Show more
Granta 100 : Winter 2007 (The 100th Edition!) by William Boyd (ed)
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In 1979, a young American graduate revived an old Cambridge university magazine and created a home for good writing of all kinds
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Nat Tate: An American Artist (1928-1960) by William Boyd
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Artist Nathwell Tate was born in 1928 in Union Beach, New Jersey. On January 8, 1960 he contrived to round up and burn almost his entire output of Abstract Expressionism. Four days later he killed himself. This book offers an account of Tate's life and work.
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 by William Boyd
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's work. Four days later he jumped off a Staten Island ferry, killing himself. His body was never found. When William Boyd published his biography of Abstract Expressionist Nat Tate, ...Show more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to g ...Show more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone - and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred, one May evening in Chelsea ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation. Now a major TV movie adaptation by The Sund ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, includi ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$55.00 NZD
Category: No Category
'Eva Delectorskaya,' I said mystified. 'Who's that?''Me,' she said. 'I am Eva Delectorskaya.'What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? During the long, hot summer of 1976, Ruth Gilmartin discovers that her very English mother, Sall ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigre living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, includin ...Show more