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Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit ...Show more
Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
On her deathbed, Dee Denham, at one time the toast of colonial Cyprus, tells her son Thomas that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by grief and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, Thomas finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. He searches through faded photographs and love l ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluen ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House beco ...Show more
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