{"title":"John Boyne","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop books by \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Boyne\u003c\/strong\u003e at Readers Warehouse. Expect historical fiction and literary fiction. Reader favourites include \u003cem\u003eAir\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Boy In The Striped Pyjamas\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWater\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for teens and young adults. Shop all our John Boyne books below, delivered across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780552778435","title":"A History of Loneliness","description":"Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends.\n\n Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks.\n\n But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation.\n It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39321517621363,"sku":"9780552778435","price":261.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/a-history-of-loneliness-john-boyne-15104640647283.jpg?v=1637085781"},{"product_id":"9780099572862","title":"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas","description":"Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war.\n \n 'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone'\n \n Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won't explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it - he will have to explore this place alone. What he discovers is a new friend. A boy with the very same birthday. A boy in striped pyjamas. But why can't they ever play together?","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32039761903731,"sku":"9780099572862","price":238.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-john-boyne-15208125104243.jpg?v=1638038877"},{"product_id":"9781784161019","title":"A Ladder to the Sky","description":"A deliciously dark tale of ambition, seduction and literary theft . . . an ingeniously conceived novel that confirms Boyne as one of the most assured writers of his generation.' Hannah Beckerman, Observer\n \n *\n \nYou've heard the old proverb about ambition, that it's like setting a ladder to the sky. It can lead to a long and painful fall.\n\n If you look hard enough, you will find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be-novelist Maurice Swift decides early on in his career.\n \n \n A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated author Erich Ackerman gives Maurice an opportunity. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell; whether or not he should is another matter.\n \n \n Once Maurice has made his name, he finds himself in need of a fresh idea. He doesn't care where he finds it, as long as it helps him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous, but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse.\n \n\n This is a novel about ambition.\n \n *\n \n 'Maurice Swift, the novelist protagonist of John Boyne's A Ladder to the Sky, is a bookish version of Patricia Highsmith's psychopathic antihero Tom Ripley' The Times\n \n 'A dark morality tale in the mould of Patricia Highsmith . . . consistently intriguing' Daily Mail","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39343361851507,"sku":"9781784161019","price":280.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/a-ladder-to-the-sky-john-boyne-28185097404531.jpg?v=1637086867"},{"product_id":"9780552573504","title":"The Boy at the Top of the Mountain","description":"When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler.\n\n Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357798711411,"sku":"9780552573504","price":238.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/the-boy-at-the-top-of-the-mountain-john-boyne-28231079755891.jpg?v=1638038522"},{"product_id":"9781909531192","title":"The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. 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The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman - Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. 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George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen.\n\n Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path.\n\n Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40691769802867,"sku":"9781529176742","price":261.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/9781529176742.jpg?v=1675669817"},{"product_id":"9780552773805","title":"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas A Fable","description":"A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian\n \n What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?\n \n Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. 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The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.\n___________ Praise for John Boyne 'A master storyteller' Daily Express\n'One of the best novelists of Ireland' Sunday Express\n'Boyne offers writing of insight and beauty' Observer\n'One of the greatest craftsmen in contemporary literature' Colum McCann","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42673281335411,"sku":"9780857529817","price":337.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/9780857529817.jpg?v=1752734562"},{"product_id":"9780857529855","title":"Air","description":"From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.\n\nBeing in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. 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In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45359199027315,"sku":"9780857528872","price":565.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/8214253482493.jpg?v=1789924391"},{"product_id":"9781529943856","title":"The Weight of Angels","description":"The life Oscar Wilde never had - reimagined by John Boyne in his most ambitious and emotionally powerful novel yet. 'Exceptionally moving... 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