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A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-i ...Show more
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Sunday Times bestseller Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life and the fate of his country forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find them ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
"Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surprising."--Denver Post From the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one ...Show more
Eva Luna: Popular Penguins by Isabel Allende
$14.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love, during a time of political unrest in South America. Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother is a servan ...Show more
Ines of My Soul - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
"Powerfully evocative. . . . Allende is at her best here; spinning words like spells, enthralling the reader with surreal visions of the New World."-- Newsweek A passionate epic of love, freedom, and conquest, based on historical events, from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Sp ...Show more
Island Beneath the Sea - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarit - known as Tt - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tt finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voo ...Show more
My Invented Country - A Memoir by Isabel Allende
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"A stunningly intimate memoir. . . . Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language."--Entertainment Weekly The revered New York Times bestselling author of House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea ponders the elements that led to her becoming a writer, ...Show more
Paula - A Memoir by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
"Beautiful and heartrending. . . . Memoir, autobiography, epicedium, perhaps even some fiction: they are all here, and they are all quite wonderful."--Los Angeles Times In this literary classic, New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende recalls the story of her beloved daughter and her remarkabl ...Show more
Portrait in Sepia - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Spectacular story-telling . . . the author's elaborate skill in weaving intimate emotional detail into the broad canvas of history is in fantastic display."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution A spellbinding family saga--a sequel to Daughter of Fortune--from the bestselling author of The House of the Spirit ...Show more
The Infinite Plan - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade."--Boston GlobeAn enthralling tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to contend with the pain and deprivation that shaped him.Born in the Hispanic barrio of Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves grew up in ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$25.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The powerful and moving new novel from international bestselling author Isabel Allende, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler ...Show more