The Girl in Blue by P G Wodehouse

$6.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Sovereign by C J Sansom

$12.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

This work is set in autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine H oward, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. As the Great Progress arrives in the city, Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers that holds danger for the King's throne, and a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age. ...Show more

Next of Kin by John Boyne

$12.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

It is 1936 and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson.But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic scion of a wealthy land-owning family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncles will. For Owen has run up huge gambling debts and Casino boss Nicholas Delfy has given him a choice: find 250,000 by Christmas - or find yourself six feet under.So when Owen discovers that he has been cut out of the will in favour of his beautiful cousin Stella, it is time to prove just how cunning he can be . . .And Owen is nothing if not inventive - even a royal crisis can provide the means for profit. And for murder . . . ...Show more

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. Don't miss Paula Hawkins' new novel, Into the Water, coming May 2017. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. "Nothing is more addict ing than The Girl on the Train."--Vanity Fair "The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership."--The New York Times "Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend."--USA Today "Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages."--The Boston Globe "Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller."--People EVERY DAY THE SAMERachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life--as she sees it--is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. UNTIL TODAYAnd then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? ...Show more

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

New official film tie-in edtion of this magnificent tale of rivalry and jealousy set in the volatile court of King Henry VIII. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the king's mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures, but he also needs an heir. The unthinkable happens and the course of English history is irrevocably altered. For the women at the heart of the storm, they have only one weapon; and when it's no longer enough to be the mistress, Mary must groom her younger sister in the ways of pleasing the king. Now this bestselling novel is brought to life as a major film, starring Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman as the Boleyn sisters and Eric Bana as Henry VIII. The cast also features Kristin Scott Thomas and Mark Rylance. Directed by highly acclaimed Justin Chadwick (BAFTA and Emmy nominated for 'Bleak House') with screenplay by Peter Morgan (Oscar nominated for 'The Queen'; BAFTA winner for 'The Last King of Scotland'), the film will generate massive interest, coverage and book sales. This compulsively readable novel is a wonderful account of the Tudor court . . This is the finest historical novel of this year.’ Daily Mail First published 2001. ...Show more

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Tudor Court Ser. | Reading Level: very good

A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory. The rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict and passion. The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, mirrors that of their mothers, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Each will fight by any available means for the crown and future of the kingdom. Elizabeth's bitter struggle to claim the throne she believes is hers by right, and the man she desires almost more than her crown, is watched by her 'fool': a girl who has been forced to leave her homeland of Spain, as a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. In a court where truth is wittily denied and lies are mere games, it is the fool who can speak plainly: in these dangerous times, a woman must choose between ambition and love. Elizabeth will not make the same mistakes as her mother. ...Show more

Anthem by Ayn Rand

$6.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

"Those who want slavery should have the grace to name it by its proper name." --Ayn Rand   In a dark, terrifying, and backwards future, people have no names and are taught never to think of themselves. Everything is subordinate to the all-powerful World Council. Individualism is illegal; as is love not authorized by the World Council. Just using the word "I" is a transgression punishable by death. Fear of innovation and change has stifled humanity and threatens to crush the world's spirit. But when one man, Equality 7-2521, decides to fight the system, everything could change...   This is the setting for Ayn Rand's early dystopian classic, first published in 1938. Unlike her later bestsellers, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, with their sprawling plotlines and epic settings, Anthem is a bracing, stripped-down allegory just as much as it is a dramatic thriller. Every page of Anthem rings with Rand's defiant, optimistic belief in the power of the individual spirit. ...Show more

Ice in the Bedroom by P G Wodehouse

$6.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

In 1993, Alan Rabinowitz, called the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, arrived for the first time in the country of Myanmar, known until 1989 as Burma, uncertain of what to expect. Working under the auspices of the Wildlife Conservation Society, his goal was to establish a wildlif e research and conservation programme and to survey the country's wildlife. He succeeded beyond all expectations, not only discovering a species of primitive deer completely new to science but also playing a vital role in the creation of Hkakabo Razi National Park, now one of Southeast Asia's largest protected areas. ...Show more

Carry on, Jeeves by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

$7.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

Featured in The Sunday Times Great Audiobooks list 'What a very, very lucky person you are. Spread out before you are the finest and funniest words from the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew' Stephen Fry _____________________________________ 'I expect I shall feel better after tea.' A collection of ten uproarious short stories. From the moment Jeeves cures Bertie of a raging hangover with his own concoction of Worcestershire sauce and tomato juice, they become steadfast partners. Whether it is fixing a plan-gone-wrong, or solving his friends' love lives, Jeeves is Bertie's unfaltering aide through a series of accidental - and self-imposed - misadventures. _____________________________________ 'The incomparable and tireless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!' Kate Mosse ...Show more

Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

November 2022. The human race has been wiped out by a virus called 6DM. The end of the world, if you will. This is the journal of a Londoner, in her mid-thirties. She owns her own flat, has married her long-term boyfriend James and has a sensible job and the kind of life that she knows is expected of he r. Like so many women she has learnt to make small compromises to herself in order to fit in. Things are fine. But in November 2022 that changes. A deadly virus has led to a global pandemic. It's pretty much the end of the world. And somehow our narrator finds herself immune to the disease that wipes out the rest of civilisation. Who will she choose to be, now she's totally alone? With her only companion a cowardly golden retriever nicknamed 'Lucky', she sets off on a journey across the country to discover if she is really the last person left alive. Told in flashbacks to her life before, and in the present to her new existence adrift in a world of burning cities, rotting corpses and man-eating seagulls, this is the ultimate story of learning to accept your own identity and finding out what it really means to be human. ...Show more

London Bridges by James Patterson

$8.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

A Hollywood hit .Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard. Detroit NewsThe Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, the coolest, hottest writer in America. In the same league as the legendary great ones John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain the King Daddy of crime writers (Seattle Times) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies. Get Shorty s shylock protagonist, Chili Palmer, is a truly inspired creation as memorable as another unforgettable Leonard hero, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified and readers will relish his moves and countermoves in this electrifying, funny, bullet train-paced winner from the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever! (New York Times Book Review)" ...Show more