'I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting the…
A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD, BARRY AWARD, INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD, AND MACAVITY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NPR, TELEGRAPH, AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEA…
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand.
