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An Unquiet Heart by Martin Sixsmith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
1917. Russia is dying amid war, revolution and terror. The birth pains of the new world are a foretaste of the cruellest century. At their heart is Sergei Yesenin, 22, a poet, lover, wounded veteran, beautiful and afraid. Damaged by childhood abandonment, Sergei fears the world, drinks, brawls and wo ...Show more
Ayesha's Gift - A daughter's search for the truth about her father by Martin Sixsmith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the bestselling Philomena, made into the award-winning film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, comes the story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of su ...Show more
Ayesha's Gift: A daughter's search for the truth about her father by Martin Sixsmith
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
**FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHILOMENA, MADE INTO THE AWARD-WINNING FILM STARRING STEVE COOGAN AND JUDI DENCH**Ayesha's Gift is the true story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani auth ...Show more
I Heard Lenin Laugh by Martin Sixsmith
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When his mother confesses the unlikely secret of his parentage, young Zhenya Gorevich determines to escape Russia and find his long-lost father. His impossible quest takes him from provincial Vitebsk to Moscow and beyond, as he tries desperately to find a way to get to swinging London and reclaim his no ...Show more
Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 16
The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan."The touching story of a mother's fifty-year search for her son." Sunday TimesWhen she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. S ...Show more
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
"Accompanying the landmark BBC Radio 4 series, and marking the 20th anniversary of the dissolution of the USSR, Russia- The Wild East tells the epic story of this vast nation, tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots in its troubled past. Russia is a country of contradictions, a nation of ...Show more
Russia : A 1,000-year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows how Russia's complex i ...Show more
The Lost Child: A Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away by Martin Sixsmith
$24.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced ...Show more
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 16
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
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