The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

$10.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good

'Deep-diving and elegant . . . Wide Sargasso Sea meets Beloved meets Alias Grace' --Margaret Atwood 'They say I must be put to death for what happened to Madame, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?'  1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds ga ther at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth.  For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a plantation in Jamaica, and it ends in a grand house in London, where a beautiful woman waits to be freed.  But through her fevered confessions, one burning question haunts Frannie Langton: could she have murdered the only person she ever loved?   A beautiful and haunting tale about one woman's fight to tell her story, The Confessions of Frannie Langton leads you through laudanum-laced dressing rooms and dark-as-night back alleys, into the enthralling heart of Georgian London.   ...Show more

The Illustrated Denniston Rose & Heart of Coal by Jenny Pattrick

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The compelling story of Rose in the best-selling Denniston novels has drawn thousands of people to explore the abandoned settlement on the South Island's remote West Coast. The original inhabitants braved a 2000-feet-high and terrifyingly steep incline, a severe climate and scarce resources to eke out a living from the seams of coal on the Hill. Their unique lifestyle has been brought alive in DENNISTON ROSE and HEART OF COAL. It has also been documented in the rich collections of historic photographs and artefacts of the place and its people, collected here to illustrate these two moving and vivid novels. They take us from the 1880s, as the young Rose struggles to find a place for herself amongst the tough, makeshift community on the high plateau, and through into the nineteenth century, as Rose blossoms into adulthood and is torn between her love affairs with two men and the bleak landscape of Denniston. In this illustrated novel the raw truth of the photographic past illuminates the reader's own imagination. In addition images of past times are paired with those of today to highlight the change from crowded settlements to ghost town. ...Show more

Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters

$10.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago V S. | Reading Level: very good

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'. ...Show more

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

$18.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Novels | Reading Level: near fine

The first and now critically-acclaimed book from Chicago artist Chris Ware. A lonely and emotionally impaired everyman, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, is provided with the opportunity to meet his father for the first time when he is 36 years old. The story, set in 1890s Chicago and 1980s sma ll-town Michigan, is told in hundreds of small, precisely drawn panels that regularly expand to reveal stunning draughtsmanship, and supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cutouts and beautifully drawn period adverts. ...Show more

Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Citizen of the World or letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East by Oliver Goldsmith

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Odyssey A Modern Sequel by Nikos Kazanzakis

$25.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Ulysses by James Joyce

$25.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction

Reprint of the first unlimited edition

A Game of Thrones (#1 A Song Of Ice & Fire) by George R. R. Martin

$8.00 NZD

Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: A Song of Ice and Fire | Reading Level: very good

PRE LOVED - Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingd om's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing--his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.   Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.   Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won't let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more. ...Show more

A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

$8.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Crime | Reading Level: very good

Watson met Holmes for the first time a short while ago, and already Sherlock Holmes had astonished him with his powers of detection. In this, their first adventure, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson uncover a thrilling story of murder, love and revenge, which began years before in Salt Lake City.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

$6.00 NZD

Category: Vintage Crime | Reading Level: very good

The greatest detective of them all is back...'He is the Napoleon of Crime...He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'. Holmes must face many wicked adversaries as he grapples with the crimes that beset London and afar, but none so deadly as Profess or Moriarty. Moriarty - the only man who can, perhaps, defeat the great Detective, forever... ...Show more

Came a Hot Friday by Ronald Hugh Morrieson

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good