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O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MAGGIE O'FARRELL Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw... In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate; it's a w ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.Soon to be an ITV television series starring David Morrisey, Luke Treadaway, Charles Dance and Jane Horrocks.Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and defer ...Show more
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
$29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in the Second World War: the Blackett family's prosperous world of tennis parties, cocktails and deferential servants seems unchanging. But it is poised on the edge of the abyss...This is the eve of the Fall of Singapore and, as we know, of much else besides. ...Show more
The Troubles by J. G. Farrell
$32.00 NZD
Category: Booker and Pulitzer Prize Winners | Series: W&N Essentials Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fianc e is strangely alt ...Show more
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
An immeasurably influential female voice in post-war Japanese literature, Kono writes with a strange and disorienting beauty: her tales are marked by disquieting scenes, her characters all teetering on the brink of self-destruction. In the famous title story, the protagonist loathes young girls but comp ...Show more
We Were Young by Niamh Campbell
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans'She has already been compared with writers such as Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Claire Louise Bennett, and indeed Niamh Campbell does add a distinctive new voice to Irish literature... Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing h ...Show more
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