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Ancestry by Simon Mawer
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by h ...Show more
Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer
29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Like his great-great-great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But for Benedict the mission is particularly urgent and personal, for his is afflicted by achondroplasia. He is a dwarf. When a chance meeting leads him to the accep ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
27.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit ...Show more
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New York Times bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal. In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to ...Show more
Swimming to Ithaca by Simon Mawer
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
On her deathbed, Dee Denham, at one time the toast of colonial Cyprus, tells her son Thomas that her illness is a punishment. Compelled by grief and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, Thomas finds himself searching for the meaning of her last words. He searches through faded photographs and love l ...Show more
The Fall by Simon Mawer
39.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Childhood friends with a common passion for mountain climbing, Rob and Jamie have become estranged in adulthood. Nevertheless, Rob is grief-stricken when he hears of Jamie's death on a relatively easy rockface - and the past holds the secret clues to the tragedy.
The Fall by Simon Mawer
28.00 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
Falling in love. Falling from a mountaintop. Falling out of favor. Falling from grace. This mesmerizing novel captures the exhilaration of emotional freefall in its myriad guises. Against a shifting backdrop of Alpine peaks, a small Welsh village, and the bombed-out London of World War II, a man and two ...Show more
The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
24.99 NZD
Category: Thriller | Series: Marian Sutro Ser.
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluen ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House beco ...Show more
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
55.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the JQ-Wingate Literary Prize 2010. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer ...Show more