John Irving
Last Night In Twisted River
$39.95$14.95 – Hardcover book / Bloomsbury
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become... Buy or find out more →
Setting Free The Bears
$21.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
Written between 1965 and 1967, Setting Free the Bears is 'sensual, moving, truly remarkable' (Time), and concerns a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo. Buy or find out more →
A Prayer for Owen Meany
$21.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument... Buy or find out more →
The 158-Pound Marriage
$26.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight, a fact not lost on Utch, a lonely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edit... Buy or find out more →
The Fourth Hand
$23.95 – Trade paperback / Black Swan
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform th... Buy or find out more →
Last Night In Twisted River
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
In his twelfth novel, John Irving revisits the rural American life he so deftly explored in some of his best novels, including The Cider House Rules. In a small logging settlement in New Hampshire in 1954, a young boy ac... Buy or find out more →
The Hotel New Hampshire
$24.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
Quirky, bizarre, tragic, fiendishly funny, The Hotel New Hampshire is anything but a conventional family saga, though a family saga it certainly is. The Berry family are different. Love abounds - both healthy and incestu... Buy or find out more →
A Widow For One Year
$19.95 – Paperback book / Blackstone Press
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character - a 'difficult' woman. By no means is she conventionally 'nice', but she will never be forgotten. Her story is told in three parts, each focussing on a critical ... Buy or find out more →
The World According To Garp
$19.95 – Paperback book / Blackstone Press
'Like all extraordinary books, The World According to Garp defies synopsis', wrote the Chicago Sun Times when Garp was first published in 1978. It is a marvellous, important, permanent novel by a serious artist of remark... Buy or find out more →
Until I Find You
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan
Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, William, a virtuoso organist, who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the North Sea as she ... Buy or find out more →
The Cider House Rules
$19.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, h... Buy or find out more →