The Smile that Wins (Wodehouse Pick-Me-Up) by P. G. Wodehouse
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Wodehouse is a tonic' - New Yorker. A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood. 'Cheaper and more effective than Valium'.* Offers 'relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour'.* 'Read when you're well and when you're poorly; when you're tra ...Show more
The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The third novel in Camilleri's savagely witty and hauntingly atmospheric Sicilian mystery series featuring Inspector Montalbano.Never has Inspector Montalbano's character - a unique blend of humour, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food - been more compelling than in The Snack Thief.Wh ...Show more
The Snakes by Sadie Jones
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,' she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air. Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea ...Show more
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wild ...Show more
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaskan wilderness. But as the days grow shorter, Jack is losing his battle to clear the land, and Mabel can no longe ...Show more
The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An amazing story about a journey, and - more importantly - a return home. Snow geese spend their Summers in the Canadian Arctic, on the tundra. Each autumn they migrate south, to Delaware, California and the Gulf of Mexico. In the Spring they fly north again. William Fiennes decided to go with them and ...Show more
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Michael Cunningham's luminous, compassionate new novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is suddenly and inexplicably inspired to look up at the sky, where he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard hi ...Show more
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.
The Soldier's Art ( A Dance to the Music of Time - Book 8 ) by Anthony Powell
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: A\Dance to the Music of Time Ser.
A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. The Soldier's Art follows Nicholas Jenkins, and a host of ...Show more
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
$21.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the 'Forgotten War' in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds little has changed, as far as his own limited prospects go, but in his absence his young family has altered immensely. His wife Ellen has found a sense of self worth in her war time jobs, and their six ...Show more
The Soldier's Wife by Joanna Trollope
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domes ...Show more