International Fiction April 2008
The Enchantress Of Florence
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole... More »
Something To Tell You
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who, as the book opens, is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia; on his first love (a relationship that continues to haunt him), and o... More »
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The Invention Of Everything Else
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
In THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE, Samantha Hunt fictionalizes the story of the Serbian-born scientist Nikola Tesla, inventor of radio and creator of AC electricity, a notoriously marginalized genius whose wild eccentr... More »
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Death At Intervals
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what ... More »
Child Of All Nations
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows that you can't enter a country without a pa... More »
Our Story Begins
$42.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
One of the most exquisite storytellers delivers his first collection in over a decade: ten potent new stories that, along with 21 classics, display his mastery over a quarter century. More »
The Abstinence Teacher
$29.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
The Abstinence Teacher is a wry suburban comedy which takes a scandalous and satirical look at modern American culture and the influence of the Christian right. Told through the stories of two very different people whose... More »
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Wolf Totem
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
It is the 1960s, and Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote nomadic settlement on the Inner Mongolian grasslands. There, he discovers an age-old synergy between the nomads, their livestock, and the... More »
Julius Winsome
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the
Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is
until the morning he finds that his dog has been shot dead - and
not by accident.
Gerard ... More »
Change Of Heart
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for t... More »
This Charming Man
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )
The queen of chick-lit delivers another sparkling tale about modern women ... and one charming, unknowable man. Four very different women are intimately affected by the news of Paddy de Courcy’s engagement. Stylist Lola,... More »
