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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel: What to Read and How to Write by Jane Smiley
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Over her 20-year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller ...Show more
A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From a brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like ...Show more
A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley
29.99 NZD
32.99 (9% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
A candid exploration of the abiding bond between humans and horses from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres 'Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.'Jane Smiley, the Pu ...Show more
An Innocent Abroad : Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; John Berendt; Dave Eggers; Richard Ford; Pico Iyer; Alexander McCall Smith; Jane Smiley
12.99 NZD
29.99 (56% off)
Category: Lonely Planet | Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature Ser.
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has ...Show more
Champion Horse (Abby Lovitt #4) by Jane Smiley
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Abby Lovitt
Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her hor ...Show more
Dickens by Jane Smiley
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A biography of one of the best-loved authors in the English language, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of thos ...Show more
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy Book 2) (C-format) by Jane Smiley
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
1953. When a funeral brings the Langdon family together once more, they little realize how much, over the coming years, each of their worlds will shift and change. For now Walter and Rosanna's sons and daughters are grown up and have children of their own. Frank, the eldest - restless, unhappy - ignores ...Show more
Golden Age by Jane Smiley
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have stayed, most have spread wide across the US, but all are facing social, economic and political challenges ...Show more
Golden Age: The Last Hundred Years Trilogy 3 by Jane Smiley
19.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Last Hundred Years Trilogy
The third novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years Trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 1987. A visit from a long-lost relative brings the Langdons together again on the family farm; a place almost unrecognisable from the remote Iowan farmland Walter and Rosanna once owned. Whilst a few have s ...Show more
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
27.99 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Joe Stratford, who sells nice houses in a beautiful place, and whose not very amicable divorce is over, is ready for his life to begin again. It is 1982, morning in America, and temptation is everywhere. And, as Marcus Burns (Joe's new friend from New York) says, the old rules are ready to be brok ...Show more
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Read by Mary Beth Hurt Four Cassettes, 6 hours Spanning two years on the circuit, from Kentucky and California to New York and Paris,Horse Heavenputs us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire owners and restless wives. Here is the trainer of dazzling integrity ...Show more