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An Ice-cream War by William Boyd
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Afr ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Armadillo by William Boyd
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've prom ...Show more
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
29.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I live on Brazzaville Beach...I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me...One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for e ...Show more
Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession.Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted b ...Show more
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Love is Blind by William Boyd
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
You don't see me as I really am. All the many nuances of Lika Blum. The light and the dark. You just see the light'When Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father and begin a wildly different new chapter ...Show more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to g ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigre living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, includin ...Show more
Restless by William Boyd
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, includi ...Show more
Restless: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by William Boyd
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Restless, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list She continued her cross-examination and watched Romer's pleasure grow; he was enjoying this, she saw, and his enjoyment began to anger her. This wasn't some pastime, some idle flirtation - her ...Show more