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A COLUMN OF FIRE
$50.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781447278733
In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country's first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions, and invasion plans. Over a turbulent half century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. Elizabeth clings to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents. The real enemies, then as now, are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else--no matter what the cost. Set during one of the most turbulent and revolutionary times in history, A Column of Fire is one of Follett's most exciting and ambitious works yet. It will delight long-time fans of the Kingsbridge series and is the perfect introduction for readers new to Ken Follett.
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A LEGACY OF SPIES
$37.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780241308554
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London are to be scrutinised by a generation with no memory of the Cold War. Somebody must be made to pay for innocent blood once spilt in the name of the greater good. Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own story, John le Carre offers a novel of superb and enduring quality.
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A LONG WAY FROM HOME
$37.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780143787075
Two-time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey takes us on a wild ride around Australia in 1954 with car salesmen, an early aviator, and the lives of Irene and Willy, the narrators of this addictive tale as they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race over roads no car will ever quite survive. A Long Way from Home is fast, funny and furious, and a tender and wonderfully wry portrait of Australia in the 1950s. Carey remaps the country of his childhood, celebrating its youthful follies and its optimism but also tracing the dark truths of its past.
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A THOUSAND PAPER BIRDS
$30.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781408878644
An intimate portrait of five inextricably linked lives, spanning one year at Kew Gardens. After the sudden death of his wife Audrey, Jonah sits on a bench in Kew Gardens, trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life. Chloe, shaven-headed and abrasive, finds solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But when she meets Jonah, her carefully constructed defences threaten to fall. Milly, a child quick to laugh, freely roams Kew, finding beauty everywhere she goes. But where is her mother and where does she go when the gardens are closed? Harry’s purpose is to save plants from extinction. Quiet and enigmatic, he longs for something – or someone – who will root him more firmly to the earth. Audrey links these strangers together. As the mystery of her death unravels, the characters journey through the seasons to learn that stories, like paper, can be refolded and reformed. Haunted by songs and origami birds, this novel is a love letter to a garden and a hymn to lost things.
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A VINEYARD IN ANDALUSIA
$38.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781925322422
A ruined merchant sets sail to seek his fortune in the 19th-century Spanish Empire. Haunted by his lost wealth, he gambles the last of his money on what will become the greatest adventure of his life — and eventually, his salvation. When Mauro Larrea meets Soledad Montalvo, wife to a London wine merchant, she drags him into a most unexpected future, from the new Mexican republic to magnificent colonial Havana; and from the West Indies to the Andalusia of the 1860s, when the wine trade with England made the small city of Jerez legendary. A Vineyard in Andalusia tells of glories and defeats, of silver mines, family intrigues, vineyards, cellars, and splendid cities of faded grandeur. This is a story of courage before adversity, and of a destiny altered for good by the force of passion.
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FIRST PERSON
$48.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780143787242
Kif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl offers Kehlmann the job of ghostwriting his memoir. He has six weeks to write the book, for which he'll be paid $10,000. But as the writing gets under way, Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him - his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder- who is Siegfried Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann? As time runs out, one question looms above all others- what is the truth? By turns compelling, comic, and chilling, this is a haunting journey into the heart of our age
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FORCE OF NATURE
$38.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781743549094
From the bestselling author of multi-award-winning thriller The Dry. Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the rugged ranges is intended to take the office colleagues out of their comfort zone and teach resilience and team building. At least that is what the corporate retreat website advertises. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalker Alice Russell. She is the whistleblower in his latest case and knew secrets about the company she worked for and the people she worked with. Far from the hike encouraging teamwork, the four rescued women tell Falk a tale of suspicion, violence and disintegrating trust, and as he delves into Alice’s disappearance, it seems some dangers may run far deeper than anyone knew.
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HOME FIRE
$30.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781408886786
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.
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IN THE MIDST OF WINTER
$40.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781471166877
From the bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover, this is a beautifully crafted, multi-generational novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerising story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. Thrown together by a Brooklyn blizzard, two NYU professors are faced with a shocking dilemma when a young Guatemalan nanny enters their lives. Isabel Allende’s vivid and captivating novel explores the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants with passion, humour and wisdom that transcend politics.
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LINCOLN IN BARDO
$33.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781408871751
An extraordinary novel about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his 11-year-old son Willie at the dawn of the American Civil War. When Willie is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery, newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy’s body. From this seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of realism, entering a thrilling, supernatural domain both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself trapped in a transitional realm – called, in Tibetan tradition, the bardo – and as ghosts mingle, squabble, gripe and commiserate, and stony tendrils creep towards the boy, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul. Unfolding over a single night, Lincoln in the Bardo is written with humour, pathos and grace. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices – living and dead, historical and fictional – Saunders poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
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LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE
$35.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781408709726
A compulsive novel about race, identity, family and secrets for fans of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When the Richardsons’ friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town and puts Mia and Mrs Richardson on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Mrs Richardson becomes determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs to her own family – and Mia’s. Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of long-held secrets and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that planning and following the rules can avert disaster or heartbreak.
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MANHATTAN BEACH
$38.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781472150882
Opening in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, she becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war, and is the sole provider for her mother and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life. Mesmerising, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece.
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MRS OSMOND
$37.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780241260180
Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband’s shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief and the knowledge of having been grievously wronged, she determines to resume her youthful quest for freedom and independence. Soon Isabel must return to Italy and confront her husband, and seek to break his powerful hold on her. But will she succeed in outwitting him, and securing her revenge? Mrs Osmond is a masterly novel of betrayal, corruption and moral ambiguity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea.
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MUNICH
$38.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780091959203
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, Conclave and An Officer and a Spy. September 1938 . Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich. As Chamberlain’s plane judders over the Channel and the Führer’s train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain’s private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven’t seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?
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SUGAR MONEY
$33.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780571336937
Martinique, 1765: brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master, Father Cleophas, with a mission. They must return to Grenada, the island they once called home, and smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders at the hospital plantation in Fort Royal. While Lucien, barely in his teens, sees the trip as a great adventure, the older and worldlier Emile has no illusions about the dangers they will face. But with no choice other than to obey Father Cleophas – and sensing the possibility, however remote, of finding his first love Celeste – he sets out with his brother on this ‘reckless venture’. Great characters, superb narrative, and language that is witty, bawdy and thrillingly alive, make Sugar Money a novel to treasure.
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THE DREAMS OF BETHANY MELLMOTH
$35.00 NZD
ISBN:
9780241295885
These funny, surprising and moving stories depict the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life; and the endless hesitations and loss-of-nerve that wickedly complicate it. From a philandering art dealer trying to give up casual love affairs; a man recounting his history through stolen items; a couple charting their five-year relationship backwards; to a young woman embarking on a journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery, this collection is a resounding confirmation of William Boyd’s powers as one of the most original and compelling storytellers.
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THE GOLDEN HOUSE
$37.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781787330160
When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the United States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities and reinvent themselves as Roman emperors living in a lavish house in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society. The story of the powerful Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, RenU, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. RenU chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden – the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder. Invoking literature, pop culture and the cinema, Salman Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat – even to the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair. The Golden House, as entertaining as it is poignant, is a revelatory panorama of our time.
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THE LAST HOURS
$37.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781760294984
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe, Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church proclaims it a punishment from God but Lady Anne of Develish has different ideas. She gathers her serfs within the gates of Develish and refuses entry to outsiders. Her resolve is strengthened by the support of her leading serfs ... until food stocks run low and the nerves of all are tested by their ignorance of what is happening in the world outside. The people of Develish are alive – but for how long? What will they discover when the time comes for them to cross the moat? Compelling and suspenseful, The Last Hours is a riveting tale of human ingenuity and endurance against the worst pandemic known to history. In Lady Anne of Develish – leader, saviour, heretic – Minette Walters has created a most memorable heroine.
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THE LIFE TO COME
$37.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781760296568
This extraordinary, mesmerising novel by the Miles Franklin-winning author, set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. It feels at once firmly classic and exhilaratingly contemporary. Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people. Profoundly moving and wickedly funny, The Life to Come reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform, distort and undo the present.
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THE NINTH HOUR
$30.00 NZD
ISBN:
9781408854617
Set in Brooklyn in the early 20th century, the story begins in tragedy as young and pregnant Annie, an Irish immigrant, returns home to her shabby tenement apartment to find her 32-year-old husband dead from intentional carbon monoxide poisoning. ." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child, giving Annie a job doing laundry at the local convent. In turn, the nuns of the Little Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor help Annie raise her daughter, Sally, after she is born. The nuns also find a friend for the new mother—a neighbour with a houseful of babies, this desperately needed and highly successful friendship is just the beginning of the involvement of the Sisters in the private lives and fates of their civilian neighbours. The characters we meet -- from Sally, , to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love, to the neighbourhood families with whose lives they are entwined -- are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermott's trademark lucidity and intelligence.
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