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Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER. A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where se ...Show more
Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Guilt is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Bernhard Schlink's eloquent but accessible style, it taps in to worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who bel ...Show more
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a child Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in a volume of fiction edited by his Swiss grandparents. He initially reads only part of the tale, which has been torn from the bound proofs, the blank back pages of which he uses for his homework. He becomes obsessed with this tale of ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York TimesOlga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees h ...Show more
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The life of one woman - Olga - from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.A novel of love, passion and history from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. 'Bernhard Schlink speaks straight to the heart' New York Times Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the tu ...Show more
Self's Deception (#2) by Bernhard Schlink
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Gerhard Self Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In Self's Deception, private investigator Gerhard Self receives a request to track down the daughter of Herr Salger, the Assistant Secretary of Bonn, who's been absent from her translation classes at the university. Repelled by the pomposity of the government official, he rejects the case. But an insist ...Show more
Self's Murder: A Gerhard Self Mystery by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
PI Gerhard Self is lured out of retirement by a seemingly straightforward assignment: to find the former sleeping partner at Welker & Welker, a prestigious private bank. But the case soon throws up many more questions than answers, and Self finds himself embroiled in a shady world of money-launderin ...Show more
Self's Murder - OP by Bernhard Schlink
$38.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Gerhard Self, the Sweet-Afton smoking, sambuca-swilling, most unlikely of PIs is back in a new tale of deception and intrigue, set against the backdrop of post-reunification Germany.After a chance encounter with the owner of a prestigious private bank, the now septuagenarian detective is enlisted to del ...Show more
Self's Punishment (#1) by Bernhard Schlink
$34.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
The bestselling detective novel from the author of The Reader.Sixty-eight years old; a smoker of Sweet Aftons, a dedicated drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo, Gerhard Self is an unconventional private detective. When Self is summoned by his long-time friend and ...Show more
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Reader, a mesmerising book about love in all its guises. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives for ever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; ...Show more
The Gordian Knot by Bernhard Schlink
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far from booming, and Georg struggles to make ends meet. One day he is approached by a certain Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take o ...Show more