Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
This sweeping, powerful epic tells the story of one of the bloodiest years in Rome's history through the eyes of two remarkable women fighting for survival A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of the Four Emperors will change everything - especially the lives of two sisters with a ve ...Show more
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all ...Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of ...Show more
The Double Comfort Safari Club (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #11) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 11 | Reading Level: good-very good
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more
The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky
$39.00 NZD
$40.00 (2% off)
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
This wonderful, panoramic novel goes right back to Irène Némirovsky’s roots, sweeping the reader from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century to Paris in the twenties and thirties, and back again to eastern Europe in a snowy winter on the eve of war. At its hea ...Show more
A Trail of Fire: Four Outlander Tales by Diana Gabaldon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
In LORD JOHN AND THE PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES, Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population. In THE SPACE BETWEEN, Jamie Fraser's step-daughter, Joan, is on her way to an abbey in Paris to become a nun - but when she ...Show more
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
$28.00 NZD
$30.00 (6% off)
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Filth, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to tbe fostered a ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
The Paris of the East by Karen McMillan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
The Paris of the East is a sweeping epic of love and war, courage and survival, sacrifice and loss. Warsaw, 1939. Four friends picnic on a brilliant summer's day and celebrate an engagement, aware of the rumbles of war, but hopeful that in any conflict Poland will have the upper hand. But only months la ...Show more
Churchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
The first in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn. It is 1939 and in the town of Dartford, Grace, Sally and twins Daisy and Rose, are determined to do their bit when war is declared. Grace, desperate to get away from he ...Show more
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
A bestselling modern classic--both poignant and funny--about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Christopher John Francis Boone ...Show more
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeent ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
$28.00 NZD
$30.00 (6% off)
Category: Fiction - general | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more