{"product_id":"9780224081795-secondhand-stones-fall","title":"Stones Fall","description":"In his most dazzling and brilliant novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone s Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home. Chronologically, it goes backwards London in 1909, then Paris in 1890, and finally Venice in 1867 and Stone s character and motivation deepen as the book progresses; in the first part he is almost an abstraction, existing only in the memory of those who knew him; in the second he is a character, but only a secondary one; in the third he is the narrator of the story. A quest, then, but also a love story and a murder mystery, set against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance,","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49328328442075,"sku":"9780224081795-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f7f22401-4e74-46aa-ba48-51d7f68c2b82.jpg?v=1789749890","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780224081795-secondhand-stones-fall","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}