Suite Francaise (Film Tie-in) by Irene Nemirovsky
$26.99 NZD
Category: Historical
France, 1940. Lucile Angellier's husband has been captured as a prisoner-of-war, and all she can do is wait for him - and tend to the household controlled by her domineering mother-in-law. Their small village is soon occupied by a regiment of German soldiers, forcing the locals to coexist with an invadi ...Show more
Channel Blue by Jay Martel
$4.99 NZD
$29.99 (83% off)
Category: Science Fiction
'Skip the blurbs and just start reading this very funny book' MICHAEL MOORE. Earth used to be Galaxy Entertainment's most lucrative show. The inhabitants of the Western Galaxy - the saviest, richest demographic in the Milky Way - just couldn't get enough of the day-to-day details of the average Earthlin ...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
King of Thorns (#2 Broken Empire) by Mark Lawrence
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: The\Broken Empire Ser.
The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I've walked from pawn to player and I'll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the ...Show more
The Fallen by Ben Sanders
$9.99 NZD
$24.99 (60% off)
Category: Mystery and Thriller | Reading Level: good
An exciting new crime writer, Ben Sanders is a 21-year-old University of Auckland student, who lives on the North Shore. Ben has been a keen writer since his early teens; his mature and edgy style belies his age and signals the emergence of a major new writing talent. He has been contracted for two Sean ...Show more
Purgatory by Rosetta Allan
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
'"You don't want to be digging there," Ma says like he can hear her. No one can hear her, just us boys. We're the dead Finnegans - Ma, Thomas, Ben and me.' Ten-year-old John Finnegan can't leave his garden. Ever since they were murdered he, his brothers and his ma have been stuck there, caught between t ...Show more
Stormbird (The Wars of the Roses Book 1) by Conn Iggulden
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: The\Wars of the Roses Ser. | Reading Level: good
The master of historical fiction, Conn Iggulden, retells one of the most brutal, bloody civil wars in English history, in the FIRST INSTALMENT of his Wars of the Roses series. King Henry V - the great Lion of England - is long dead. In 1437 his gentle son comes of age and takes the throne. Frail in body ...Show more
Sons For The Return Home: (Popular Penguins) by Albert Wendt
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Originally published in 1973, this story of star-crossed lovers spotlights the complex nature of love, freedom, and racism in New Zealand. Samoan writer Albert Wendt's first novel, Sons for the Return Home, has long been out of print. Yet, readers continue to respond to the clarity of vision in this sim ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rag ...Show more
Emperor Of Thorns (#3 Broken Empire) by Mark Lawrence
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Broken Empire Ser. | Reading Level: good
Lawrence brings the Broken Empire series to its devastating conclusion The path to the throne is broken - only the broken can walk it The world is cracked and time has run through, leaving us clutching at the end days. These are the days that have waited for us all our lives. These are my days. I will s ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
$16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
The Promise by Lesley Pearse
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: ( was to be called: Belle's War)
War threatens to take all she has'loved and lived for . . . On the outbreak of war, Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the deadly trenches of northern France. But Belle knows she cannot stand idly by when so many are sacrificing their lives. Volunteering to help battlefield wounded, Bell ...Show more