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Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mike Engleby has a secret...This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns into a mystery of gripping power. Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a ...Show more
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of ...Show more
Girl At The Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
39.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebire and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness ...Show more
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the S ...Show more
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is a gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dors ...Show more
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse?s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. Bertie Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable soujourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bert ...Show more
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in America in 1959, this is the story of Mary van der Linden and her family, comprising two children and her husband, Charlie. An American newspaper reporter, Frank Renzo dramatically enters the van der Lindens' lives, and through him Mary is forced to confront the terror of the Cold War that is the ...Show more
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Both a poignant love story and a period portrait of America, this is the story of a solitary woman in great turmoil. As the Eisenhower years end and 1960 ushers in John F. Kennedy. Mary van der Linden confronts the terror of the Cold War - a dark background to her carefree existence in Washington. (Prec ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial TimesHere is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in c ...Show more
Pistache by Sebastian Faulks
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The work pistache (pis-tash) means a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Derivation uncertain, possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little ...Show more