Snap by Belinda Bauer
26.00 NZD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE From award-winning crime writer Belinda Bauer, "the true heir to the great Ruth Rendell" Mail on Sunday (UK)], Snap is a gripping novel about a teenage boy's hunt for his mother's killer. Jack's in charge, said his mother as she disappeared up the road to get help. I ...Show more
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Keith Wilson (Editor); Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
At a country fair near Casterbridge in the fictional county of Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober the n ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The inspiration for the upcoming feature film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of ...Show more
Lost Without You by Rachael Johns
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Four women, one dress, and the secret that binds them all ...On a special night, a celebration of new beginnings, Paige MacRitchie's joy quickly falls away when her mother collapses. Terrified of losing her, Paige decides she wants to make the ultimate tribute to her parents' perfect marriage: she will ...Show more
Found in Translation by Frank Wynne (Editor)
59.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence' George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture exists in isolation; all writers are part of the intertwining braid of literature. Found In Translationbri ...Show more
Roar: Thirty Women. Thirty Stories. by Cecelia Ahern
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'These stories sing and cry and shout and whisper from the page. They're sharp, clever, witty...a joy to read.'Donal Ryan, international bestselling author of The Spinning HeartFrom much-loved, international bestseller Cecelia Ahern come stories for all of us: the women who befriend us, the women who en ...Show more
The Invitation by Belinda Alexandra
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ...Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a ...Show more
FS Fire And Blood: The Inspiration For HBO's House Of The Dragon by George R R Martin
49.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: A\Song of Ice and Fire Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war t ...Show more
From the Ashes by Deborah Challinor
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Allie Manaia must navigate society's disapproval of her mixed-race marriage to Sonny, while at the same time attempting to cope with the death of their baby, and undiagnosed PTSD - a result of being caught in the Dunbar & Jones department store fire two years earlier. Allie's grief, and her distress ...Show more
Table for Eight by Tricia Stringer
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A cruise, no matter how magical, can't change your life. Can it...?Clever, charming dressmaker Ketty Clift is embarking on her final cruise from Sydney before she must make serious changes in her life. Supported by the ship's all-powerful maître d' Carlos, she has a mission: transform the lives of those ...Show more
The Girl on the Page by John Purcell
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Amy Winston is a hard-drinking, bed-hopping, hot-shot young book editor on a downward spiral. Having made her name and fortune by turning an average thriller writer into a Lee Child, Amy is given the unenviable task of steering literary great Helen Owen back to publication.When Amy knocks on the door of ...Show more
The Forbidden Door (Jane Hawk 4) by Dean Koontz
35.00 NZD
Category: Crime | Series: Jane Hawk Ser.
'We're rewriting the play, and the play is this country, the world, the future. We break Jane's heart, we'll also break her will.'She was one of the FBI's top agents until she became the nation's most-wanted fugitive, a happily married woman before becoming a devastated widow. Now Jane Hawk may be all t ...Show more