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Spirit of Youth: Thirty Years of the Spirit of Adventure Trust by Tessa Duder & Kate Thompson (eds)
9.95 NZD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Since the Spirit of Adventure Trust was set up 30 years ago, more than 50,000 young people have sailed on the Trust's training ships, Spirit of Adventure and Spirit of New Zealand. This book tells the inspiring story of those thirty years.
Switchers Trilogy (Switchers/Midnight's Choice/Wild Blood) by Kate Thompson
19.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
`One of the best books of the year' said the Guardian when Switchers was published and it received outstanding critical acclaim, followed by great sales. Kate Thompson went on to write two more unputdownable sequels Midnight`s Choice and Wild Blood, featuring Tess and Kevin, and here are all three novel ...Show more
The Beguilers by Kate Thompson
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
There is a dire warning never to peep out at them. There are stories of people who succumbed to their voices and walked out into the night, never to be seen again. But Rika, frustrated by the culture of her people, is determined to catch a Beguiler and solve the mystery of their existence.
The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson
29.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
JJ has grown-up and has a family of his own: he's married to Aisling and has four children - Hazel, Jenny, Donal and little Aidan. All his children are special in their own way but Jenny has always lived by her own rules. She forgets to go to school a lot, doesn't like wearing shoes and spends a lot of ...Show more
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
The Little Wartime Library: A gripping, heart-wrenching WW2 page-turner based on real events by Kate Thompson
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
London, 1944.Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war, in East London Clara has created the country's only underground library, built over the tracks in the disused Bethnal Green tube station. Down here a secret community thrives: with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a ca ...Show more
The Missing Link by Kate Thompson
18.95 NZD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Danny has always believed that his scientist mother is dead. But when a talking dog tells him it isn't true, Danny sets out on a mission to find his mother and her hidden laboratory in Fourth World. But Danny is locked in his own world, so he will need the help of his step-brother Christie, if he is to ...Show more
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The New Policeman Trilogy
Everyone in Kinvara is conscious that time is flying past, faster and faster - to such an extent that when JJ asks his mother what she would like as a birthday present she ask for more time. JJ dismisses this as mere wishful thinking, an impossibility, for who know where the time goes? The Liddys have b ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club (PB) by Kate Thompson
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when thei ...Show more
The White Horse Trick by Kate Thompson
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
It is the latter part of the 21st century, and dramatic climate change has made life in Ireland almost impossible. Meanwhile, Tir na n'Og is faced with a refugee problem, and the king of the fairies is not happy about it and when it is revealed that the warlord who is behind the problem is a member of t ...Show more