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Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Chicago First Equitable has won the race to construct the world's tallest building and its president, Hale Gray, hits upon a surefire way to make it an enduring landmark: to establish on the roof an exhibition of real-life 'savages'. He sponsors a South Seas voyage to collect not only weaponry and artef ...Show more
Bright and Distant Shores by Dominic Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and The Vance Palmer Prize..They were showing the savages on the rooftop--that was the word at the kerbstone... Set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific, Bright and Distant Shores is both a sweeping epic and a triu ...Show more
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance an ...Show more
The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a luminous new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse. Dominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey--Ameri ...Show more
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel ...Show more
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
$16.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerAn Indie Next PickA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA rare seventeenth-century painting -- the only known surviving work of a woman who defied the expectations of her time -- links three lives, on three continents, over three centuries in this exhilarating new novel ...Show more
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'...beautifully written ...A compelling psychological study, a thoughtful tracing of the birth of a new art form and an atmospheric portrait of 19th-century France: impressive on all three counts.' Kirkus When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, afte ...Show more
Utopia (Hardcover) by Thomas More; Dominic Baker-Smith (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and ...Show more
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