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Hodd by Adam Thorpe
28.99 NZD
29.99 (3% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Who was Robin Hood? Romantic legend casts him as outlaw, archer, and hero of the people, living in Sherwood Forest with Friar Tuck, Little John and Maid Marian, stealing from the rich to give to the poor - but there is no historical proof to back this up. The early ballads portray a quite different figu ...Show more
Notes from the Cévennes - Half a Lifetime in Provincial France by Adam Thorpe
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A charming memoir exploring the history, landscape and people of rural France, told through the eyes of a Parisian-born Englishman, writer and poet. Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient ...Show more
The Rules of Perspective by Adam Thorpe
45.00 NZD
55.95 (19% off)
Category: Fiction
It is April 1945, and the small provincial town of Lohenfelde is about to be overrun by the Allied Third Army. Huddled in the vaults of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum to escape the artillery bombardment, are Heinrich Hoffer, the Acting Director, and his three colleagues: two women and one man, underground an ...Show more
Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carrie ...Show more
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