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The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
35.00 NZD
40.00 (12% off)
Category: General fiction
Set in 1991, our narrator Feliks Zhukovski, a displaced Polish Communist living in Paris, lies in his sick bed being tended to by his landlady of forty years, Madame Lefevre. As they embark on their first ever conversation, Feliks surprises himself by revealing that Paris is not where he considers home ...Show more
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Change is in the air in a shabby apartment in the 19th arrondissment in Paris. One unremarkable day Madame Lefevre invites Feliks to call her Sandrine. As his indomitable landlady's manners have been as unvarying as her dresses for the last 36 years, this feels significant to Feliks. And it is. As the f ...Show more
The Breaking of Eggs by Jim Powell
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs' The apologists of Josef Stalin Feliks Zhukovski, a Pole in Paris, is a hangover from another age - a man who chose politics over people and ideas over love. His life's work is a travel guide to the old Eastern bloc; his personal life a series of failure ...Show more
Things We Nearly Knew by Jim Powell
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
There's a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you're coming or going. Marcie and her husband have run it for years. After thirty years of marriage, there aren't many secrets left. Couples often tell themselves that, although it's not always true. Arlene appe ...Show more
Things We Nearly Knew by Jim Powell
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A haunting new novel by the acclaimed author of The Breaking of Eggs and Trading Futures. There's a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you're coming or going. Marcie and her husband have run it for years. After thirty years of marriage, there aren't many se ...Show more
Trading Futures by Jim Powell
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub a ...Show more
Trading Futures by Jim Powell
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction-General
'With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.' Daily Mail When I was small, my mother showed me how to grow a carrot from a carrot. She filled a jam jar with water, cut the top off a carrot, ran a cocktail stick horizontally through the stub a ...Show more
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