Sycamore Row by John Grisham
$27.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject m ...Show more
Sydney Bridge Upside Down by David Ballantyne
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
"There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the terrible happenings up the coast that summer ...Show more
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life. I am cursed by folk as an optimist and a dreamer, which is a dangerous combination ...'Sylviais the story of the Children's Crusade, which occurred in the year 1212, and is perhaps the strangest true event to hav ...Show more
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
$55.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The story of Sylvia Honeyeater, who sings like an angel and can literally charm the birds from the trees, this epic tale of a Europe torn by religious intolerance also features the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Francis of Assisi, the Muslim Sultan and his harem, as well as the fervour that became the Children' ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel, "The Bell Jar", it was following her death in 1963 t ...Show more
Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
At 23, Alice Hare leaves England for New York - the city of her birth, before she was adopted by a British mother and an American father. As she falls in love with the big city, she also becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer living in New York whose life has strange parallels w ...Show more
Sympathy Between Humans by *
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer.
Symphony by Jude Morgan
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the acclaimed author of Passion comes an audacious, brilliant and haunting novel in which the worlds of nineteenth-century theatre, of Romantic art and music, of revolutionary Europe, of inspiration and madness, are presented with the dazzle of a world-class orchestra. Symphony embodies the wild in ...Show more
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
$22.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's We ...Show more
Syrup by Max Barry
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Scat is young, confused, and underemployed with dreams of being rich, shallow, and famous. So when he comes up with a million-dollar marketing idea for a hot new brand of cola, he's sure he's found his ticket to the Los Angeles fast lane.