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A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
26.99 NZD
30.00 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally's life is turned upside down wh ...Show more
A Special Relationship by Douglas Kennedy
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Sally Goodchild is a thirty-nine year old American who, after nearly two decades as a highly independent journalist, suddenly finds herself pregnant and in London⦠married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Thompson, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment comes a poignant and profound American love story. How long does it take to fall in love? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and a good mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried abou ...Show more
Five Days by Douglas Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have t ...Show more
Isabelle In The Afternoon by Douglas Kennedy
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradiction ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, e ...Show more
Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Woman in the Fifth and The Pursuit of Happiness comes a devastating new novel. Years after vowing to herself and her parents to never marry, have children and lead the resentful life they chose, Jane, now a Harvard professor, falls unexpectedly pregnant. Resolved as sh ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
36.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents ...Show more
State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript cor ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. An overnight success and suddenly the toast of Tinseltown ...Show more
Temptation by Douglas Kennedy
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, big time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television - and before you can say 'overnight success', he's the ...Show more
The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
24.95 NZD
31.99 (22% off)
Category: Fiction
On the face of it, Ben Bradford is a standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting: Ben hates it. When he realises that the state of his marriage has less to do with baby-induced sleeplessness and mo ...Show more