Scarlet & Magenta by Lindsey Dawson
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the 1880s, misbehaving wives were asking for trouble. Building a raw Bay of Plenty town was hard enough without free-thinking females upsetting local society. Violet comes to Tauranga from London with a scandalous past and an aching heart. She befriends a kindred spirit, Anna, and catches the eye of ...Show more
The Student Body by Simon Wyatt
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In The Student Body, Simon Wyatt takes the reader on a thrilling journey to catch a killer through his eyes as a former police detective.A popular fifteen-year-old girl is strangled to death at a school camp on Auckland's west coast. The posing of the body suggests a sexual motive. Nick Knight, a week i ...Show more
The March of the Foxgloves by Karyn Hay
14.99 NZD
32.00 (53% off)
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A late 19th century tale of triumph over obsession and humiliation. It is London 1893, and Frances Woodward is an an adventurous young photographer taking tasteful, yet by Victorian standards, erotic images of her friend Dolly. However the restrictions of her puritanical father and the cruelties of 19t ...Show more
Girl of Shadows (Convict Girls #2) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Convict Girls
The adventures of the transported convict women continue in this stunning sequel to Behind the Sun. Philippa Gregory meets Bryce Courtenay as Sydney's history comes vividly to life. What had they done? What had she and Sarah and Friday done? 1830: Convict girls Friday Woolfe, Harriet Clarke and Sarah Mo ...Show more
Behind the Sun (Convict Girls #1) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Convict Girls
Four women on a perilous journey to a new world, can rely only on their wits to survive ...and each other Irreverent and streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. there, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morg ...Show more
The Silk Thief (Convict Girls #3) by Deborah Challinor
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Convict Girls
1830s Sydney Town - with its bar brawls, blackmail, friendship, romance, tattoos, gin and much more - is brought vividly to life as feisty prostitute Friday, naive seamstress Harrie and cunning thief Sarah try to make their way as transported convict women. Driven by madness ...saved by love. 'A door sl ...Show more
The Italian Wedding by Nicky Pellegrino
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Pieta Martinelli's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her mother so faded and sad? And could the man s ...Show more
The Stories of Bill Manhire by Bill Manhire
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen’s visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide. THE STOR ...Show more
Days Are Like Grass by Sue Younger
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A beautiful New Zealand summer. An ugly past that won't stay buried. Paediatric surgeon Claire Bowerman has reluctantly returned to Auckland from London. Calm, rational and in control, she loves delicately repairing her small patients' wounds. Tragically, wounds sometimes made by the children's own fami ...Show more
Strip by Sue Wootton
14.99 NZD
40.00 (62% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
A comic strip is not so funny when you're drawing to forget. Their dreams of parenthood dashed, Harvey and Isobel go for dream jobs instead. Harvey hangs up his stethoscope to become a cartoonist and Isobel takes a promotion at the local museum. T hen an abandoned baby comes up for adoption, and Harvey ...Show more
The Food of Love Cookery School by Nicky Pellegrino
14.99 NZD
24.99 (40% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Condition: **NEW** In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives. Moll is a foodie and an exhausted working mum on the holiday of a lifetime. Tricia, a top London lawyer is taking a break from the demands of her job and her family. ...Show more