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Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
23.00 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
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is in on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the pu ...Show more
Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright
40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
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: 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
38.00 NZD
Category: General 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
The Song Before it is Sung by Justin Cartwright
28.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Ely ...Show more
This Secret Garden : Oxford Revisited (The 'Writer and the City' series) by Justin Cartwright
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: The\Writer and the City Ser.
Part of a series called 'The Writer and the City'. Cartwright has returned to his old university, spoken to many leading figures, looked at his favourite places, subjected himself to am English tutorial, attended the freshers' dinner in his old college, studied various works of art, libraries and museum ...Show more
To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright
29.00 NZD
Category: Gardening
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
39.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Up Against the Night by Justin Cartwright
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Frank McAllister has long since dropped "Retief" as his middle name, but the legacy of his family's history proves harder to shake. His ancestor Piet Retief, leader of the South African Great Trek, was killed by Zulu king Dingane in the 1838 massacre, along with a hundred men, women, and children. Afrik ...Show more
Up Against the Night by Justin Cartwright
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'History ...is seldom able to convey the essence of being human' Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the New Forest, and a house near Cape Town. But more and more he feels alienated in England. As the book opens, ...Show more
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