Swallowtail Summer by Erica James
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It was the summer it all ended . . . It was the summer a new story began. Linston End has been the summer home to three families for several decades. The memories of their time there are ingrained in their hearts: picnics on the river, gin and tonics in the pavilion at dusk, hours spent seeking out the ...Show more
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve year-old, must battle to save it. After the death of her beautiful and legendary mother, Swamplandia!, Ava's island home in the Florida Everglades, is under threat from a nearby competitor; her sister Osce ...Show more
Swan Peak by James Lee Burke
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
After the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing. But while Montana might seem an unspoilt paradise peopled by men and women from an earlier, mor ...Show more
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
They told him everything.He told everyone else. Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears. On exclusive yachts sailing the Mediterranean, on private jets streaming towards Jamaica, on Yucatán beaches in secluded bays, they gossiped about sex, ...Show more
Swanfolk by Kristin Omarsdottir
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An astonishing dystopian novel about a woman's discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elisabet's work is the lynchpin of her ...Show more
Swastika Night by Murray Constantine
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished ...Show more
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$19.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
Sweet Caress - The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
Sweet Gum by Jo-Anne Goodwin
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Eugene Burnside joined The Firm before he left school, running drugs. Clever and ambitious, he's now 28 and going places. He
Sweet Jimmy by Bryan Brown
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Bryan Brown has been telling stories with his distinctive Australian voice on TV and in film for a long time, but this time he's writing crime in his first book. 'Uniquely Australian and uncommonly good, I could hear the author's voice in every spare, haunting line. More please.' - Michael Robotham 'My ...Show more
Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wil ...Show more