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Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1964: Bert Cousins, the deputy District Attorney, shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited, bottle of gin in hand. As the cops of Los Angeles drink, talk and dance into the June afternoon, he notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host's w ...Show more
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
$19.99 NZD
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THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yet It is 1964- Bert Cousins, the deputy district attorney, shows up at Fra ...Show more
I'd Rather Be Reading : A Library of Art for Book Lovers by Guinevere De la Mare; Maura Kelly; Gretchen Rubin; Ann Patchett
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
For anyone who'd rather be reading than doing just about anything else, this book is the ultimate must-have. In this visual ode to all things bookish, readers will get lost in page after page of beautiful contemporary art, photography, and illustrations depicting the pleasures of books. Artwork from the ...Show more
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It is the 1960s. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth's, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose is a young woman who has decided, to be 'a liar for the rest of my life'. She is pregnant but also married (athough at St Elizabeth's she claims to be unwed), fleeing her dull but ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is just a few weeks after Christmas, and the unforgiving New England weather has taken a turn for the worse. Doyle has dragged his reluctant young sons - adopted sons, as his pale Irish colouring contrasted with their black skin makes obvious - to a speech by Jesse Jackson. Though his own political c ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father's protective plans for them. But when they are involv ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A moving story of overlapping lives from the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel CantoTip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increa ...Show more
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A dazzling tale of science and ritual, terror and love, State of Wonder is the most ambitious and mesmeric book yet from the Orange prize-winning author of Bel Canto
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
$22.99 NZD
$25.00 (8% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”—New York Times Book Review Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the sam ...Show more
Taft by Ann Patchett
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. When his son is taken away to Miami by his mother, Nickel is left with nothing but Myddy's, the Memphis blues bar that he manages. Then he hires Fay Taft, a young white waitress from east Tennessee, and things change.