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
The Hidden Palace by Dinah Jefferies
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: The Daughters of War 2 | Reading Level: very good
An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise... A rebellious daughter 1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding stre ...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 (#27 Jack Reacher) 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
When One of Us Hurts by Monica Vuu
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'When one of us hurts, we all hurt...' Port Brighton hates outsiders. The small coastal town has its own ways of dealing with the evil, the foolish, the misled, and it holds tightly to them. But the seams start to split after two deaths occur on the same tragic night: a baby abandoned at the foot of a l ...Show more
The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The German Girl sweeps from Berlin at the brink of the Second World War to Cuba on the cusp of revolution, to New York in the wake of September 11, before reaching its deeply moving conclusion in the tumult of present-day Havana. Based on a true story, this masterful novel gives voice to the joys and ...Show more
The Albatross by Nina Wan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Primrose Li is torn - between her past and her present, her first love and her current love, duty and desire, fear and freedom. One day, as she's almost come apart at the seams, she takes an unexpected detour to her local golf course. Slowly, this sport - which she is terrible at - becomes her meditatio ...Show more