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9781741751680

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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NZ$ 37.99 each

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Author: Mary Ann Shaffer

Published by: Allen & Unwin

A glorious, gorgeous, completely irresistible novel, Guernsey will win hearts everywhere.An affecting, emotional epistolary novel recalling the charm and warmth of 84 Charing Cross Road and the gentle wit of Alexander McCall Smith, Guernsey tells the story of a small group of neighbours on the island of Guernsey off the coast of England, a pig farmer, an elegant lady, a potion maker, a rag and bone man, a footman posing as a lord who survive the Nazi occupation in the second world war by gathering over humble potato peel pie to talk of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and the great novels. With the war over, Juliet, an eager writer from London, uncovers just how dramatic the lives of these islanders really were during the war, and through them, discovers the drama in her own life.Guernsey is a real gem of a novel. It's that rare thing: a small story, simply told, that contains within it enormous depth and heart. Completely accessible and ... more

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9780007197897

Shakespeare

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NZ$ 24.99 each

Hardback

Author: Bill Bryson

Published by: HarperCollins

In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard -- from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died. Following his international bestsellers 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' and 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid', Bill Bryson has written a short biography of William Shakespeare for the Eminent Lives series -- which seeks to pair great subjects with writers known for their strong sensibilities and sharp, lively points of view.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780701178017

Trespass

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NZ$ 38.99 each

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Author: Rose Tremain

Published by: Chatto & Windus

Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge, by the bestselling author of The Road Home, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed Cévenol world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London. Now in his sixties, Anthony hopes to remake his life in France, and he begins looking at properties in the ... more

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9780241015285

A Fraction of the Whole

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NZ$ 40.00 each

Author: Steve Toltz

Published by: Hamish Hamilton

"The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them." Heroes or criminals? Crackpots or visionaries? Relatives or enemies? It's a simple family story. From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of Thailand to a leaky boat in the Pacific, A Fraction of the Whole follows the Deans on their freewheeling, scathingly funny and finally deepy moving quest to leave their mark on the world.

Prizes: Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Guardian First Book Award 2008 and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009.

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9780571195305

A Gate at the Stairs

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NZ$ 38.99 each

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Author: Lorrie Moore

Published by: Faber and Faber

With America quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, a 'half-Jewish' farmer's daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to university - escaping her provincial home to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.
When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household.
As her past becomes increasingly alien to her - her parents seem older when she visits; her disillusioned brother ever more fixed on joining the military - Tassie finds herself becoming a stranger to herself. As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways.

Refracted through the eyes of this memorable narrator, A Gate at the Stairs is a lyrical, beguiling ... more

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9781869790424

All That Glitters : Denise L'Estrange-Corbet

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Denise L'estrange Corbet

Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd

Denise L'Estrange Corbet is one half of the dynamic husband and wife team that makes up WORLD, one of NZ's leading fashion businesses.This is Denise's honest and frank account of her turbulent life - from her difficult childhood through to her successful business life today.She covers the emotional landscape of her childhood, her malevolent grandmother, her dysfunctional family and most of all the development of her depression. This is a really honest, raw story that shows how mental illness can develop through childhood. Her insights into the causes and effects of depression are enthralling; it's a compelling story of mental illness, written with a great deal of humour. At times, it's like a darkly fascinating version of Bill Bryson: funny anecdotes about childhood with the menacing tinge of depression. Her account of the early years of WORLD, her time as a fashion student in London, her interactions with people in the business are ... more

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9781877460210

A Long Slow Affair of the Heart : An adventure on the French canals

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NZ$ 34.99 each

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Author: Bruce Ansley

Published by: Shoal Bay Press

One morning our narrator wakes up and wants to change his life. He wants escape and adventure. His wife is won over, despite being completely happy with things as they are. He throws in his job, they cut their ties and set off to live on the French canals. They buy a boat called the River Queen in Holland, sail through Belgium to France. In 37 years of marriage his wife has been partner to previous escapes with, as they say, mixed results. La belle France turns out to be a dream - life is full of flowers, eclairs and adventure. But aboard the boat a more enduring romance is playing out. A life's love may not survive the journey. Our hero embraces canal life with vigour, while Sally, though brave and determined, finds that the dark, murky canals and their terrifying locks dampen her spirits. She longs for home, her sons and the comforts of her own life. This is a beautifully told story about a dream, about love and a crisis: a journey ... more

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9780701183417

A Mercy

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Toni Morrison

Published by: Chatto & Windus

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.

In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.

Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in flesh, he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.

There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by ... more

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9780747582977

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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NZ$ 38.00 each

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Author: Khaled Hosseini

Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end, it is love that triumphs over death and destruction. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is an unforgettable ... more

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9780719566370

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

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NZ$ 39.99 each

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Author: Tony Horwitz

Published by: John Murray

Long before the Pilgrims, other Europeans pioneered North America, seeking land, converts and cities of gold. By exploring Americas lost, or often repressed, heritage, award-winning writer Tony Horwitz unmasks the countrys founding myths. A Voyage Long and Strange opens with the Vikings in ad 1000, but focuses on the neglected period in early American history between Columbuss voyage of 1492 and the Pilgrims arrival in 1620. Horwitz recaptures the adventures of non-English explorers and the drama of the first contact with native peoples during this period. He also sets out on his own journey of rediscovery, travelling in the explorers wake to reveal the enduring influence that early Europeans had on America. Why, Horwitz asks, do we remember history the way we do? During his long and strange journey, from Indian sweat lodges to Columbuss crypt, he exposes the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget about our past. A ... more

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9781846550256

Berlin Poplars

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NZ$ 34.99 each

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Author: Anne B Ragde

Published by: Yellow Jersey Press

Just before Christmas on a farm in Northern Norway, eighty-year-old Anna Neshov, matriarch of a troubled family, is taken gravely ill. Her three sons have been quietly immersed in their work: one an undertaker, one a window-dresser and the eldest running the family farm, but now they are forced to reunite for the first time in many years. Their personalities are as disparate as their careers, and tensions mount from the second they meet, climaxing over Christmas dinner when the matter of inheritance prompts the revelation of disturbing family secrets...Anne B Ragde has created an engrossing dark comedy brought vividly to life through extraordinary characters. While perfectly in tune with their professions the Neshov sons as a family are little short of dysfunctional; nevertheless, the real theme of the novel is a sense of belonging. The farm itself defines this, with its power to draw people back to their roots, whether they like it or ... more

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9781846053450

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Dear Fatty

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NZ$ 37.99 each

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Author: Dawn French

Published by: Century (Random House)

DAWN FRENCH is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverent humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here, in her autobiography, she describes the twists and turns of the journey that would eventually establish her as a, perhaps unlikely - but nevertheless genuine, national treasure.

Dawn first appeared on the British entertainment scene as part of the groundbreaking alternative comedy group, the Comic Strip, marking a radical departure from the more traditional comedy acts of the time. Then, later came the all-female Girls On Top, which teamed Dawn with Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracy Ullman and firmly established women in British comedy.

As part of the wildly successful and much loved duo French and Saunders, ... more

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9780747586647

Eat, Pray, Love : One woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

Published by: Bloomsbury

A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman's search for happiness

It's three a.m.
Liz, a thirty-something writer, is sobbing on the bathroom floor while her husband sleeps next door. She wants to walk out of her marriage but she's not sure she can. Panicked and utterly lost, Liz begins to do something she's never done before. She starts to pray

At this point everything in her life begins to change. A divorce and a painful love affair follow. But then begins Liz's year-long journey to seek happiness: four months in Rome where she learns Italian and gains twenty five pounds, four months in her Guru's ashram in India where she struggles to enjoy the never ending meditation, and finally to Bali, to spend some time with an old medicine man, who looks uncannily like Yoda.
And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.

First published 2006.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9781844084982

George Eliot

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NZ$ 29.99 each

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Author: Jenny Uglow

Published by: Virago Press Ltd

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life, so why did she deny her fictional characters the same opportunities?

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780241142547

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar

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NZ$ 37.00 each

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Author: Paul Theroux

Published by: Hamish Hamilton

In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux retraces the steps he took thirty years ago in the best-selling and hugely acclaimed The Great Railway Bazaar.

From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to The Great Railway Bazaar. Full of life and impeccably evoked, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is as rich with incident and local colour as any of Paul Theroux's most loved travel books.

First published 2008.

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