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Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 1914, an English archaeologist called Somerville is fulfilling a lifelong dream: to direct an excavation in the desert of Mesopotamia. Yet forces beyond his control threaten his work. The Great War is looming, and various interest groups - Turkish, German, English and American - are vying for control ...Show more
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero--Lord Horatio Nelson--he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson, Britain's greatest admiral, who lost his own life defeating N ...Show more
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero--Lord Horatio Nelson--he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson, Britain's greatest admiral, who lost his own life defeating N ...Show more
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winningsSacred Hunger, turns to 14th-century England with a novel of foul doings in the time ofThe Name of the Rose. InMorality Play, Barry Unsworth, indisputably the finest writer of literate historical fiction alive today, brings 14th-century England to vibr ...Show more
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, an Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a disgraced Liverpool slave-ship owner who hanged himse ...Show more
The Rage of the Vulture by Barry Unsworth
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in Constantinople in 1908, Robert Markham, an Englishman in government service, arrives with his imperious wife and young son. Unknown to his family, Markham has a terrible secret in his past. The author won the 1992 Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger.
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth, and if the wind continued the dream would crumble.'The vast invasion fleet lies impotent, rocking on the waters in the straits of Aulis. Great Agamemnon's army grow uneasy at the delay and int ...Show more
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Trojan War is about to break out, and Agamemnon will do anything to enable the Greek fleet to set sail with the wind behind him. Even the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigeneia is not too much to ask. A 21st century approach to the cast of Homeric characters. Hardback
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