Smoked by Patrick Quinlan
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But, when she returns to the isolated island she grew up on to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself ...Show more
Still Life by Louise Penny
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A dead body in the woods brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache to a small isolated village on the eastern coast of Quebec province. Gamache can
Dying Day by Robert Ryan
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
1948: Europe is at peace, but a new war is just beginning Laura McGill, a beautiful woman in her mid-twenties, is waiting on a street corner in Piccadilly, London, with a Colt .32 in her handbag. She is desperate to find out what happened to her sister Diana. Both Laura and Diana were Special Operat ...Show more
Crusader Gold by David Gibbins
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The elusive Crusader Gold: the greatest prize missing from the final bloody conflict of the Crusades. For many it is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans in AD70 when they sacked the Temple in Jerusalem and marched through Rome in triumph. It was carried off to Constantin ...Show more
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Frederica Hatch, the charming, precocious child of sweetly bonkers parents, has an idyllic if spoilt childhood in the grounds of the small, not very good, Dewing college. Everything is perfect ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàand then she discovers that her father has a secret. Worse still, his secret has a nam ...Show more
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'When I was born in 1961, it was to instant campus celebrity.' Frederica Hatch, the charming, precocious child of sweetly bonkers parents, has an idyllic if spoilt childhood in the grounds of the small, not very good, Dewing college. Everything is perfect -- and then she discovers that her father has a ...Show more
The Consequence of Marriage by Isla Dewar
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is a delicious, funny, heartwarming new novel from an author whose novels are bestsellers in Scotland and who has a growing army of fans in the rest of the world. When James McElroy saw the ad for a lodger with 'Bibi Sanders' in a smart Edinburgh street, he pictured a glamorous young landlady with ...Show more
Good Things I Wish You by Manette Ansay
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Two extraordinary women, and two love stories separated by centuries - an ingenious fusion of fiction and fact, inspired by the story of Clara Schumann. Forty-two and newly divorced, Jeanette Hochmann is trying to reassemble her life with her young daughter. Lately, the world seems bereft of the passion ...Show more
Tell Me Your Secret by Deirdre Purcell
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An evocative and dramatic novel told in the voices of two narrators: Violet, who in 1944 is imprisoned in the tower of a rambling country house by her family; and Claudine, a modern-day property negotiator who becomes involved in handling the sale of the derelict Whitecliff in 2004. Violet's story is of ...Show more
Judge and Jury by James Patterson and Andy Gross
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
It's the trial of the decade - Dominick Cavallo, the modern-day Godfather, has finally been put in the dock, and there's enough evidence to make it certain he'll be convicted. Heavy security surrounds the courtroom, and Nick Pellisante, the FBI agent who helped to nail Cavallo, keeps a close eye on proc ...Show more
Foolish Mortals by Jennifer Johnston
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Festive family life at its worst, from an acclaimed Irish author.All families are complicated, but some are more complicated than others. And Christmas can only make matters worse. After Ciara's estranged father is nearly killed by his second wife in a car accident or was it an accident? - Ciara begins, ...Show more
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
I believe I have just discovered one of my favourite books this year. Two story lines, one set in the early 19th century takes us from the gentle Suffolk countryside to the battlefields of Waterloo and the ports of Spain where we follow and reflect on the life, loves and fortunes of Waterloo veteran and ...Show more