The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wild ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
35.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
Set in 1867, Canada. As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township ...Show more
Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
27.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
10 A breathtaking tale of mystery, buried secrets and romance, set in nineteenth century frontier Canada - for fans of THE SNOW CHILD and A PLACE CALLED WINTER. 'Unquestionably atmospheric, evocative and rewarding' Independent on Sunday 'A tense and delicately written thriller' Observer Canada, 1867. A ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
28.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: good
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and ...Show more
Shogun: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES by James Clavell
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: The\Asian Saga Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES - A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that ...Show more
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) by Juliet Marillier
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Sevenwaters Trilogy
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives and they are determined that she know only contentment. But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father i ...Show more
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
30.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds.A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to sav ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
17.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more