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Foreign City by Charlotte Grimshaw
36.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
An intricately written novel about chance encounters, overseas experience, families, identity, art and literature. Smart, intimate, often very funny... underlined with ideas about the separations between fiction and life. - Sunday Star Times. Brilliantly written... immensely satisfying. - North and ...Show more
Guilt by Charlotte Grimshaw
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Amongst Auckland's freightyards, where rusting ferries loom over squalid nightclubs and all kinds of human detritus finish up, runs Quay Street, populated by drunks, junkies, psychos and derelicts. For Maria Wallis and Marcus Klein, she a promising young lawyer looking for kicks, he a budding novelist i ...Show more
Mazarine by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From award-winning author Charlotte Grimshaw, this is a beautifully evocative, sensual portrayal of a woman's search for freedom and love. When her daughter vanishes during a heatwave in Europe, writer Frances Sinclair embarks on a hunt that takes her across continents and into her own past. What clues ...Show more
Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
"You could look back after a long time and ask, who wanted what from whom?" A man confronts death after an operation, a devout Christian encounters a man who hurt her long ago, a secretary uncovers her boss's secret shame. And in a house in Auckland an elderly woman is writing the last book of her life, ...Show more
Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw
32.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: Very Good
Charlotte Grimshaw's collection of interlinked stories, Opportunity, was shortlisted for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won New Zealand's premier award for fiction, the 2008 Montana Book Award. Grimshaw has described Opportunity as a single, unified composition, less a series of storie ...Show more
Soon by Charlotte Grimshaw
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
During the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but tension is brewing underneath the surface. There is an unusual bond uniting the two fami ...Show more
Starlight Peninsula by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"The latest enthralling novel from the author of The Night Book and Soon.Eloise Hay lives on the Starlight Peninsula. Every weekday she travels into the city to work at Q TV Studio, assisting with the production of a current affairs show.One night she receives a phone call that will change her life fore ...Show more
The Bad Seed - The Night Book & Soon by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Now combined into a major TV drama, these two connected novels by award-winning writer Charlotte Grimshaw take an unflinching look at politics and power, contemporary New Zealand society and the arid morality of the privileged. In The Night Book, doctor and party donor Simon Lampton is drawn to Roza Hal ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
The Night Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was this contemplation of the future that made Roza frightened, and that caused her to turn her mind, as she did now, harried and nervous, to the past. And then there was the question of Simon Lampton.' Roza Hallwright leads a quiet, orderly life, working at her publishing job each day, returning ho ...Show more
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