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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel that balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language --now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. "Blissfully romantic.... A terrific, spellcast ...Show more
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
32.99 NZD
Category: General 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
21.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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: Gift Ideas
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
24.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Taft by Ann Patchett
24.99 NZD
Category: General 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.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place. Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish folly in small-town Pennsylvania taken on by his property developer fath ...Show more
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Third -- and breakthrough -- novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. 'The Magician's Assistant' is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past. A magician (with o ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as 'one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives' and 'a master of her art' (Observer). In her new collection, with her trademark blend of wryness, intelligence and wisdo ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lar ...Show more