Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers (#9 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
It's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his 7th birthday for so long he's now longing to be 18. But there's a lot of living to do and Bertie isn't alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that - with mixed fortunes.
Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser. | Reading Level: very good
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 8 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. From social media to the finer poin ...Show more
Pure by Andrew Miller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very bre ...Show more
Astray by Emma Donoghue
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, ...Show more
The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas (Film Tie-In) by John Boyne
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
"'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'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' ? ...Show more
The Best of Times by Penny Vincenzi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
On a hot summer's day, a lorry slews across a motorway and causes a huge pile-up. In that split-second accident, lives are changed forever. Jonathan is a successful surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress, Abi; Georgia is a young actress on her way to an audition for the part that could make ...Show more
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: Adult
A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their ...Show more
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
A haunting story of love and war from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists. With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's i ...Show more
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt is Nelly Zhang, an artist whose husband disappeared mysteriously years before Tom met her. Although Nelly helps him ...Show more
Girl Online by Zoe Sugg
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Girl Online
Girl Onlineis the stunning debut romance novel by YouTube phenomenon Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella. I had no idea GirlOnlinewould take off the way it has - I can't believe I now have 5432 followers, thanks so much! - and the thought of opening up to you all about this is terrifying, but here goes . . . Penny h ...Show more
Cryptonomicon (PB) by Neal Stephenson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
In 1942 Waterhouse is assigned to Detachment 2702 on a secret mission to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. Shaftoe is the translator. In the present Waterhouse's grandson teams up with Shaftoe's granddaughter they find a massive cons ...Show more
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Century Trilogy | Reading Level: 16
Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns ...Show more