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9780007164233
Set This House in Order (O/P)
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Author:
Matt Ruff
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers
How do you escape from a house full of ghosts, when the house is inside your head? An acclaimed young novelist delivers an original and revelatory story about a man who suffers from multiple personality disorder. While Andrew Gage deals with the world around him, over a hundred other souls share an imaginary house inside his head, struggling to maintain an orderly coexistence: Aaron, the father-figure, who makes the rules; Adam, the mischievous teenager, who breaks them; Jake, the frightened little boy; Aunt Sam, the artist; and Gideon, the dark soul, who wants to get rid of Andrew and the others and run things on his own. In short, Andrew Gage serves as the everyday public face of a young man with a broken mind, haunted by the ghosts of his past. Andrew's new coworker, Penny Driver, is also a multiple personality -- a fact that Penny is only partially aware of. When several of Penny's personalities ask Andrew for help, he ...
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9780006514435
Cora Crane
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Author:
Paul Ferris
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers
From the highly acclaimed author of Infidelity comes a haunting novel based on the real-life romance between American author Stephen Crane and Cora Stewart, an exceptional woman of her time who made a profession out of love and deception.
By the time Cora meets Stephen Crane, she has begun a new life in Jacksonville, Florida, after a turbulent marriage spent in late-Victorian London from which her husband refuses to release her. She is owner-manager of the Hotel de Dream but, like Cora, the hotel isn't what it seems: it doubles up as a high-class brothel.
Back in England they live together as man and wife, but Crane is as fixated with war as he is with Cora. His wanderlust soon has him in Cuba, reporting from the front line, leaving his mistress abandoned in Surrey, desperately trying to survive in a world with rigid ideas of propriety, and terrified he may never return.
Meanwhile, stubborn Detective Inspector Fred Hooper is ...
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9780349117041
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (#4 in series Ladies Detective Agency)
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author:
Alexander McCall Smith
Published by:
Little, Brown & Company (UK)
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life?
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9780747571674
Antarctic Navigation
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NZ$ 43.00 each
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Author:
Elizabeth Arthur
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
A major American novel - a work of astonishing power, range and vision
The dazzling landscape central to this multifaceted tale of adventure and aspiration is the white Antarctic vastness known as the Ice. The story told is of an exhibition to the South Pole, led by a young, ardent American woman, Morgan Lamont - an expedition inspired and haunted by the tragic journey, eighty years before, of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. For Morgan, Scott's life, his dream, his death, and the very concept of Antarctic navigation are obsessive emblems of the search for integrity in a morally precarious age. Freed by her mother's quixotic and frightening sacrifice and the generosity of a hitherto estranged grandfather, she sets out to fulfil her own dream - to 'vindicate' Scott by recreating his historic polar expedition.
At once extravagant and austere, pulsing with colour and detail against the stark Antarctic ice, this is a novel as ...
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9781405050951
The Apothecary's House
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author:
Adrian Mathews
Published by:
Macmillan General Books
A brilliantly witty and inventive mystery set in Amsterdam, by prize-winning author Adrian Mathews
When an old woman storms into the Rijks Museum demanding the return of her painting, archivist Ruth Braams cannot quell her curiosity. Ruth delves into the history of the piece of looted Nazi art and discovers an enigmatic picture with a disturbing wartime provenance. It also appears that the elderly Lydia is not the only claimant and, against strict bureau regulations, Ruth endeavours to help strengthen her case.
Days later, Ruth begins to receive sinister anonymous threats, warning her to stay away from Lydia and the painting. As the threats escalate, Ruth realises that there must be far more to the painting's popularity, and she enters into a series of increasingly lethal adventures as she investigates the painting's secret symbolism…
A brilliant evocation of Amsterdam that combines fascinating historical detail with a ...
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9781877270444
The Second Favourite Son
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Author:
Dan Myers
Published by:
Hazard Press Limited
The Second Favorite Son
unfolds two hundred years of the Packard family saga. It is a story of the ties that bind and the kind of love only a truly eccentric family can understand.
When Straughan Packard III dies suddenly, control of the family empire should have been passed to his firstborn son, the princely ‘Junior’, Straughan Packard IV. But given Junior’s mysterious disappearance, the job has fallen to the second son, the free-spirited JD Packard.
This is a world where the South has emerged victorious in the War Between the States, where plantations have evolved into corporate empires, the men who run them hold the reins of almost unlimited power, and history and tradition rule. And as JD Packard learns, once caught in a web of hostile corporate takeovers and forbidden love, it’s not easy changing the world.
For Dexter Peebles, a descendant of former Packard slaves, discovering the truth behind Junior’s ...
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9780140294224
The Hummingbird Saint
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Author:
Hector Macdonald
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Benjamin Sword Hoppner, philanthropist and visionary, has created his own utopia in the Central American cloud forests, governed by a strict moral code. He's promised financial support to anyone who can satisfy him of their good character. And Mark Weston is determined to do exactly that. Journeying through country still devastated by war, Mark reaches Hoppner's isolated "perfect society", only to discover that his generosity comes with terrible strings attached ...
"A chilling thriller" The List
Before I get to Hoppner, I should probably say something about my own morality. I like truth - telling it and hearing it. Funny to think you'll have to take my word on that, but then I'm told humour is a virtue. What else? Temperance? Simplicity? Prudence? All good things in moderation, I suppose. Some bastards really test my tolerance, others my sense of justice and my willingness to forgive. And though I used to believe I was reasonably ...
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9781863252911
City of Dreams
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author:
Swerling Beverly
Published by:
TRANAU
In 1661 a brother and sister stagger off a ship to seek a new life in the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam. Lucas Turner is a barber surgeon; Sally Turner an apothecary. Both gifted healers, they are bound to each other by blood and necessity but as their new lives unfold, betrayal and murder make them deadly enemies. Their descendents - dedicated physicians and surgeons, pirates and whoremasters - will shape the future of medicine and a new city.
Interweaving the fate of two pioneering families with a young country's struggle for freedom and the birth of modern medicine, this is an unforgettable tale told by a master storyteller.
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9780099287469
Dark Back of Time
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NZ$ 28.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Javier Marias
Published by:
Vintage/Ebury
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780091795351
My Name Is Legion
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NZ$ 55.00 each
Hardback
Author:
A.N. Wilson
Published by:
Hutchinson
Wicked Satire on the morality of contemporary Britain, in the vein of
Bonfire of the Vanities
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'So it was that within minutes of Father Vivyan's soul leaving his body and soaring God alone knows where... the silence of that religious house was broken... They could hear the coarse accents of Lennox Mark shouting, 'Don't you realize - you cunt - don't you realize who I fucking am?''
Had Father Vivyan been killed by his own pride and fanaticism; by his belief that he could 'save' a dangerous and mentally unstable boy? Had he been killed by his own fanatical posture, his alliance with those whom the rest of the world saw as terrorists? Or had he been destroyed by the popular Press and in particular by the proprietor of The Legion, Lennox Mark? Perhaps by a bit of all those things - A. N. Wilson has written a savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain - its Press, its politics, its Church, its rich, its ...
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9780743231398
Always the Sun
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Neil Cross
Published by:
Scribner
What do you do when your son is bullied? How far will you go to protect him from those who seek to cause him harm?
Jamie is thirteen years old, an only child. His mother has recently died. He and his father Sam have move to Sam's home town. A fresh start. An aunt to lend support. A new job for Sam, a new school for Jamie.
But one day Jamie comes home, bearing the scars of every parent's worst nightmare. Something must be done.
So it begins.
Neil Cross's fourth novel is a nail-biting tour de force; a story of one father's love, anger and despair. Together with the widely-acclaimed
Holloway Falls
, also available in Scribner, it confirms him as one of the key commentators of our time.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780007150861
Mrs Kimble
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Jennifer Haigh
Published by:
HarperCollins Publishers
Over a span of twenty five years, three women marry the same man - a charismatic opportunist named Ken Kimble. Each Mrs Kimble offers a mesmerising look at how three very different women became accomplices in their own deception.
The first, Birdie, is left in deprived conditions and struggles to hold herself and their children together in the months following Kimble's desertion; the second, Joan, a lonely heiress recovering from personal tragedy, sees in Ken Kimble her last chance at happiness and defies her family and friends to marry him; and the third, Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age, tries to find the strength to survive him.
Beautifully written, stunningly original, this emotionally compelling novel is a meditation on women, marriage and the illusions upon which it is based.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780732275761
One Man's Bible
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Gao Xingjian
Published by:
COLAUS
The eagerly-awaited new novel from Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Full of wisdom, wit, pain and redemption,
One Man's Bible
is a book which sets out to make sense of the horror that was China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). There has been much written about this period, and the Chinese people are often portrayed as innocent victims, powerless to stop the government stamping any cultural pursuit that wasn't state-sanctioned. Gao argues however that everyone - from paddy-field worker to government cadre - was complicit and should take responsibility for what happened.
Some 30 years later, the book's main character reflects on the tragedy and absurdity which swept through China under Mao's rule, recalling the endless rounds of recrimination and the policing of every word and deed - how nothing that did not conform to the mandates of the state or the Party was allowed ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780099443575
Bethany Bettany
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author:
Fred D'Aguiar
Published by:
Vintage (Random House imprint)
A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family. And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all... Bethany Bettany is five years old when her father dies and her mother leaves her to fend for herself in the Abrahams household. The place simmers with resentment: her uncles and aunts think her mother killed her father; her grandmother has not left her room since her grandfather disappeared. Bethany is the scapegoat for it all. Taunted, beaten, despised, she retreats into silence and learns to make herself invisible. As she quietly nurses her wounds, she eavesdrops on the conversation of the adults around her. Soon she is piecing together answers to the questions that haunt her. How did her father die? Why doesn't her mother answer her letters? And who is she? Fred D'Aguiar's wonderfully rich, evocative fourth novel is a book about ...
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9780141009933
An Evening of Long Goodbyes
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NZ$ 27.00 each
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Author:
Paul Murray
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most assured Irish novels of recent years, An Evening of Long Goodbyes is the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. Featuring drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre, Paul Murray s debut novel is a tour de force of comedic writing wrapped in an honest-to-goodness tale of a man and a family living in denial . . .
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