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Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Richard Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. Richard remembers his recently-deceased father, Alaric, as a delusional hippy, who saw himself as an intellectual and historian. Following in his father's footsteps, Richard travels to Jerusalem where he falls deeply in love with N ...Show more
Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Richie Cathar's father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist and historian. He was also a man of the sixties: a fantasist, absentee parent and drug abuser. Alaric named his son after his hero, Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him little when he died apart from conflict ...Show more
Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright
59.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The new novel by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness.
Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright
29.99 NZD
39.99 (25% off)
Category: Thriller
The venerable bank of Tubal & Co is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-year history - it was bailed out by Rothschilds' in 1847 - but this time will be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of rather important facts need to be kept hidden, especially from any potential bu ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
35.00 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
The Promise of Happiness is a tour de force, an elegy to the idiocies and intricacies of family life and family love.Charles Judd stands peeing on small molluscs on a Cornish Beach.His wife Daphne is struggling with a Rick Stein recipe in the kitchen of a lime-washed house nearby.Their youngest daughter ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Judds, formerly of London N1, now scattered, are about to be thrown together again by the eldest child JulietâÃÂÃÂs release from prison in New York. The family is devastated by Juliet's conviction for art theft. The nature of this theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For ...Show more
The Promise of Happiness: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century by Justin Cartwright
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Charles Judd meanders round his local Cornish beach, contemplating the turns his life has taken. At home, his wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe. Two of their children are keeping it all together - just. The third, the prodigal daughter Juliet, is being released from prison in ...Show more
The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Two Oxford friends find their friendship destroyed by the rise of the Nazis. On 20th July, l944 Adolf Hitler escaped death by a miracle in a failed bomb. He found the main conspirators, had them hung from meathooks and their executions filmed. Axel Count Von Gottberg, is one of those hanged by Hitl ...Show more
To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright
38.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Now that his wife is dead, retired television news anchor, David Cross, believes that he is more himself than he has been for forty years. When Nancy was alive, he had secrets that he kept from her. Now he has a secret that he must keep from his children, Ed and Lucy, namely that he is in some ways happ ...Show more
To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright
28.99 NZD
30.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
David Cross is surrounded by secrets. When his wife Nancy was alive he kept secrets from her and now that she is dead, he must hide his new happiness from his children, Lucy and Ed. But they too have their troubles: Ed's marriage is in trouble, Lucy is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend, and both worry t ...Show more
To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright
65.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Now that his wife is dead, retired television news anchor, David Cross, believes that he is more himself than he has been for forty years. When Nancy was alive, he had secrets that he kept from her. Now he has a secret that he must keep from his children, Ed and Lucy, namely that he is in some ways happ ...Show more