The Republic of False Truths by Alaa Al Aswany
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'An amazing portrait of fanaticism and cynicism among Egyptian powermongers.' - ANDRE ACIMAN 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which we know far too little.' - Sunday Times General Alwany is a pious man who loves his family. He also tortures and kills enemies of the state. Under th ...Show more
Covenant Keeper, The: Telesa Book 1 by Lani Wendt Young
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Telesa 1 | Reading Level: near fine
She is a girl torn between two worlds … Teenager Leila Folger escapes the stifling misery of life with her American grandmother and goes to Samoa searching to connect with her mother’s family. All her efforts to learn more about the mother shenever knew are met with hostility. What really happened eight ...Show more
When Water Burns by Lani Wendt Young
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Telesa 2 | Reading Level: near fine
With Nafanua and the Covenant Sisterhood dead, Leila and Daniel are finally able to love without fear of retribution. Or are they? As a malicious Telesa plots her revenge, a mysterious stranger arrives on the island. Fuelled by hate and running from a fiery past, he looks to Leila for answers and she mu ...Show more
Vladimir Nabokov - Romanzi Tomo I by Vladimir Nabokov
$55.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Prende avvio con questo volume, che ripropone tre romanzi della giovinezza scritti in russo - "La difesa di Luzin", "L'occhio" e "Il dono", da molti ritenuto il suo capolavoro -, la pubblicazione delle opere essenziali di Vladimir Nabokov, per le cure del suo massimo specialista, Brian Boyd. Il lettore ...Show more
U and I - A True Story by Nicholson Baker
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nicholson Baker has written a book about John Updike. That's not true: he has written a book about John Updike and Nicholson Baker; he has written a book, that is, about U and I. Nicholson Baker is the author of Vox, The Mezzanine, The Fermata, Room Temperature and Thoughts.
Reader I Married Him by Michele Roberts
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ghost Target by Andy McDermott
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Alex Reeve Ser. | Reading Level: good
EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES.The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.Alex Reeve - known as OPERATIVE 66 - is a former special-ops soldier and one of the UK's most lethal weapons. Previously a member of SC9, an elite covert unit with a remit to assassinate the ...Show more
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
$7.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. "I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four ...Show more
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of h ...Show more
Dancing with the Enemy by Diane Armstrong
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of The Collaborator comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, revenge, and redemption set in German-occupied Jersey during World War II. June 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson, a Jerse ...Show more
A Secret Garden Affair by Erica James
$14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Another heartbreaking but glorious tale of secrets and love from the Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James...July 1981. As the country prepares to celebrate Prince Charles' wedding to Lady Diana, Libby wants to be as far away from royal wedding fever as possible.Having caught her own fiancé in bed ...Show more
No Plan B by Lee Child; Andrew Child
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Jack Reacher 27 | Reading Level: very good
The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he s ...Show more