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The American Lover by Rose Tremain
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands,embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And i ...Show more
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
44.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands,embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in ...Show more
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a seductive new collection of stories from the Orange Prize-winning author of The Road Home and Restoration Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow ...Show more
The Colour by Rose Tremain
26.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Gustav SonataJoseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by a rapturous obse ...Show more
The Cupboard by Rose Tremain
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
First published 1981. "Deeply evocative...a book brimming with life" The Times
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain
49.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The multi-award-winning writer offers a fascinating collection of short stories with such diverse characters as the forgetful consort of a former king, an East German border guard made redundant once the Berlin Wall comes down, and a baby who grows wings.
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, and other stories by Rose Tremain
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it ...Show more
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was a game of love and death. Neither of us will ever speak about it. It's locked inside us.' Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother but she treats him with bitter severity, disapproving especially of his int ...Show more
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he li ...Show more
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will become totally involved wit ...Show more
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise and witty book about the contemporary migrant experience. On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving. . . . Lev is on his way ...Show more
The Swimming Pool Season by Rose Tremain
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most a ...Show more