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A Bridge to the Stars (Joel Gustafson #1) by Henning Mankell
19.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Joel Gustafson
12 year old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of his father's house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge across the icy river he starts a secret society and has adventures. But one night he discovers that his fathe ...Show more
A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 1904 Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. On the voyage she finds love in the form of the ship's mate, whom she marries. But disaster strikes when her husband is struck down by a fatal illness while the ship is docked ...Show more
After the Fire by Henning Mankell; Marlaine Delargy (Translator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: very good
*Now shortlisted for the Petrona Award 2018 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year* The last novel from international crime bestseller Henning Mankell. A brilliant and moving mystery set in the Swedish archipelago. Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to ...Show more
After the Fire by Henning Mankell
26.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cut ...Show more
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Kurt Wallander Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Some cases aren't as cold as you'd think Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only for him to uncover something unexpected in the garden - the skeleton of a middle-aged woman. As police officers comb the property, Wallander attemp ...Show more
Before The Frost (Kurt Wallander #9) by Henning Mankell
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Wallander Mystery
Sweden’s bestselling and award-winning author Henning Mankell joins Vintage Canada with the first Kurt and Linda Wallander Mystery.Linda Wallander is bored. Having just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the mea ...Show more
Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
22.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page. A string of incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, ...Show more
Before the Frost (Wallander #9) by Henning Mankell
34.95 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Linda Wallander | Reading Level: good
The leader of a religious cult in Guyana instigates a mass suicide. He succeeds in killing himself and his whole flock of worshippers, save one. One man escapes. In the wood in the country land outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude ...Show more
Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
One night Jose Antonio Maria Vaz hears gunfire from the deserted theatre next door to his bakery. He races to the theatre's uppermost gallery, and there beneath him on a spotlit stage lies the wounded body of Nelio, a street urchin renowned for living on his wits. Gasping, the wounded boy asks to be tak ...Show more
Daniel by Henning Mankell
38.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1875 Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the expedition of a lifetime to the Kalahari Desert where he hopes to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself and advance his career. Instead, after his long and arduous journey through the sands, he finds a small boy, who ...Show more