At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village.
The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: 12+
Meet twelve-year-old Liam McKenzie, who patrols his suburban neighbourhood as the Masked Avenger - a superhero with powers so potent not even he can fully comprehend their extent. Along with his sidekick, Richie the Powerbeagle, he protects the people of Franklin Street from chaos, mayhem, evil and low ...Show more
The Colour of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Lost among the gaudy, busy streets of Macau, Grace's life is slowly unravelling. Her marriage to Pete, her Australian husband, is fraying and her dreams of having a family seem hopeless. With the heralding of a new year she resolves to do something bold. Something her impetuous Mama might do. In this po ...Show more
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in conveying feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, her only conn ...Show more
The Seamstress by Maria Duenas
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set from just before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and through World War II, 'The Seamstress' follows the life of Sira Quiroga, a Spanish seamstress who becomes embroiled in a glamorous and dangerous world far from where she belongs, one filled with the idle rich and politically powerful. Abando ...Show more
Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good - near fine
On the outskirts of an Australian country town in the 1950s, a lonely farmer trains his binoculars on a family of kookaburras that roost in a tree near his house. Harry observes the kookaburras through a year of feast, famine, birth, death, war, romance and song. As Harry watches the birds, his next doo ...Show more
Fishing for Tigers by Emily Maguire
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and single, Mischa believes that romance and passion are f ...Show more
Poet's Cottage by Josephine Pennicott
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Poets had always lived there, the locals claimed." When Sadie inherits Poet's Cottage in the Tasmanian fishing town of Pencubitt, she sets out to discover all she can about her notorious grandmother, Pearl Tatlow. Pearl was a children's writer who scandalised 1930s Tasmania with her behaviour. She was ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$29.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care s ...Show more
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Picador 40th
It is 1943; billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides across rural Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land. Amongst the swaying cars an unlikely seduction occurs between Robert, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean, a young seamstress. ...Show more
The Colour of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Among the gaudy, busy streets of Macau, Grace Miller has lost her way. Her marriage to Pete, her Australian husband, is fraying and her dreams of having a family seem impossible. With the heralding of a new year she resolves to do something bold. Something her impetuous Mama might do. In this pocket of ...Show more