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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had th ...Show more
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
23.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of t ...Show more
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Francis Spufford
23.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. November 1944. A German rocket strikes London and five young children are atomised in an instant. Here are the futures they might have known, ha ...Show more
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford
30.00 NZD
Category: History
What if the Soviet 'miracle' had worked, and the communists had discovered the secret to prosperity, progress and happiness...? The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that th ...Show more
The Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house door in Golden Hill Street: this is Mr Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion simmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a h ...Show more
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford
29.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic ...Show more
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