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  • Ancestry

    A Novel

    by Simon Mawer ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling.Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the stories of his ancestors. Illiterate and lacking opportunity in the bleak Suffolk village ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Ancestry

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 30 min

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling.Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the stories of his ancestors. Illiterate and lacking opportunity in the bleak Suffolk village ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Tightrope

    A Novel

    by Simon Mawer ...
    **From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and TrapezeAn historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties**As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Trapeze

    A Novel

    by Simon Mawer ...
    A propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of New York Times best seller The Glass Room.Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, which trains agents to operate in occupied Europe. Drawn ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Glass Room

    A Novel

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece. Viktor and Liesel, a rich Jewish mogul married to a thoughtful, modern gentile, pour all of their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Fall

    A Novel

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Rob Ross is driving home when he hears that his childhood friend Jim Matthewson has fallen to his death in a climbing accident. Rob's decision to turn his car around and make the journey to comfort Jim's widow is the beginning of a journey into the past, back to Rob's youth before he made the pivotal choices that now come back to haunt him.Simon Mawer skillfully unveils the delicate layers of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Prague Spring

    A Novel

    by Simon Mawer ...
    New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal.In the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter--Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mendel's Dwarf

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Like his great-great-great-uncle, geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert struggles to unlock the secrets of heredity and genetic determinism. However, Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he was born with achondroplasia--he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate for love and acceptance, and when he finds both in Jean, a shy librarian, he stumbles upon an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Prague Spring

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Narrated by Ralph Lister ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 30 min

    New York Times bestselling author Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story of sex, politics, and betrayal.In the summer of 1968, the year of the Prague Spring with a Cold War winter, Oxford students James Borthwick and Eleanor Pike set out to hitchhike across Europe, complicating a budding friendship that could be something more. Having ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Chimera

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    First published in 1989 Chimera was Simon Mawer's first novel. Mawer is renowned as one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction.The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Tightrope

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    This captivating historical thriller brings back Marian Sutro, ex–special operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post–World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties.As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Glass Room

    by Simon Mawer ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 55 min

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Simon Mawer's The Glass Room brilliantly evokes six decades of Eastern European history, beginning in 1930s Czechoslovakia. Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of promise. But as war becomes inevitable, their lives ... Read more

    $24.99 USD