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A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Left after the death of his wife and one of his sons with an empty house and cupboards full of hoarded odds and ends that seem to have nothing to do with him, Aldous Jones is tempted to spend the whole day sitting in his chair in the kitchen. But with admirable determination, he resolutely resumes old p ...Show more
August by Gerard Woodward
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
Aldous Jones always takes his his family camping in Wales. He starts to see a symbiosis develop between their North London home and the Welsh village they only ever see in August. When the farm gets a milking parlour, the Jones get a new car. But Mrs Jones sees
I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 It is 1970 in the suburbs of north London and, from the untidy comfort of her crowded house, Colette Jones is watching her older brother go to pieces, drinking himself into oblivion on home-made wine. Colette knows the solace a drink can provide, being partial t ...Show more
Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
24.99 NZD
29.99 (16% off)
Category: General Fiction
The English are an unusual bunch: quirky and eccentric, often reserved and reticent, but always strong and resilient. Tory Pace, the heroine of this beautifully written and hilarious black comedy, is all of these things. Typically, she's trying to make the best of life in a difficult time: struggling, a ...Show more
Nourishment by Gerard Woodward
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is the stunning new novel from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author. With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother. As Tory works at the local gelatine factory - doing her bit for the war ef ...Show more
The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Hugely enjoyable' John Boyne'Contemporary family drama at its most compelling, and with a brutally exquisite ending' Nathan Filer'I couldn't put it down till I was done' Nikita LalwaniArnold Proctor's quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and on ...Show more
The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
44.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'Hugely enjoyable' John Boyne'Contemporary family drama at its most compelling, and with a brutally exquisite ending' Nathan Filer'I couldn't put it down till I was done' Nikita LalwaniArnold Proctor's quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and on ...Show more
Vanishing by Gerard Woodward
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is the story of Kenneth Brill, a naive boy and equally naive young man, growing up on a farm outside London. His theatrical father is a figure of extremes: he has lost a fortune by investing in prosthetic limbs for a war that happened too late, has killed his dwarfish music hall partner in a knife ...Show more
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