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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And y ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZEA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...? This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summ ...Show more
Back When We Were Grown-ups by Anne Tyler
26.95 NZD
28.99 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca, it was at a party at the Davitch home - a crumbling nineteenth-century house in Baltimore where giving parties was the family business. Young Rebecca looked to Joe like the girl having more fun than anyone in the room and he wanted some of that happiness to spill over ...Show more
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller A charming novel of self-discovery and second chances from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake has had three opportunities to start her life over: in 1967, as a schoolgirl whose mother has suddenly disappeared; in 1977, when considering a ...Show more
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
NATIONAL BEST SELLER! A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread.Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. I ...Show more
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Friday August 15th, 1997 - The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that l ...Show more
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Friday August 15th, 1997. The night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that li ...Show more
French Braid by Anne Tyler
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the cha ...Show more
French Braid by Anne Tyler
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers. French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today.THE MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS OF OUR TIMEA brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and fun ...Show more
Ladder Of Years by Anne Tyler
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her family's knowled ...Show more
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
LIam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodgin issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certaint and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory. In trying to piece together what took place on his first night in a new apartme ...Show more
Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler
38.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny little out of town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on the first night, tucking himself in tightly ... and wakes up in hospital una ...Show more