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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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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, ...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 ...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 ...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.' ...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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more