Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$28.00 NZD
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Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
When You Walked Back Into My Life by Hilary Boyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
For eight years Flora's love affair with Fin was a whirlwind of fun and spontaneity - but when Flora wanted to settle down and have children, Fin vanished. Life moved on and Flora's world filled with other people, other cares. There were benefits to being single - no socks under the bed, no mess in the ...Show more
One Day: Now a major Netflix series by David Nicholls
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESS It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day--July 15th--of ...Show more
Morality For Beautiful Girls: The multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 3 | Reading Level: good-very good
In this third volume of highly original 'detective' stories with a unique setting and characters, the irrepressible, Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and at work. THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging ...Show more
Tu by Patricia Grace
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
The persimmon tree is a symbol of life, a heartwood that will outlast everything man can make . . . It is 1942 in the Dutch East Indies, and Nick Duncan is a young Australian butterfly collector in search of a single exotic butterfly. With invading Japanese forces coming closer by the day, Nick falls in ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Poli ...Show more
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
$29.00 NZD
$30.00 (3% off)
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Cousins' War Ser.
The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centu ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the the inaugural £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Th ...Show more
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. 'Do you remember me now?' he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. 'Lenka, it's me,' he said. 'Josef. Your husband.' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 by George Orwell
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
Pre-read / Used. Fair condition. "Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the bleak, imp ...Show more