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Blood Family by Anne Fine
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done. Sent to live ...Show more
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Flour Babies by Anne Fine, won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1992. When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartwright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babi ...Show more
Fly in the Ointment by Anne Fine
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Guilt is in the eye of the beholder ...When her cold and indifferent husband vanishes, so does Lois' old life. Now she is ready to take her chances again. There's only one fly in the ointment: Janie-Gay, ex-partner of the son Lois lost to drugs, and spiteful mother of the small, neglected child she can' ...Show more
Frozen Billy by Anne Fine
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Clarrie is determined to save her family when Uncle Len recruits her younger brother to help him with his ventriloquist act on the music-hall stage. For slowly but surely, it seems as if Will is turning into another dummy - another Frozen Billy.
Nag Club by Anne Fine (illustrated by Arthur Robins)
$13.90 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Boggle hats are the latest craze. Everybody at school wants one - but only Lola has one. So she decides to form a club to show the other children how best to nag their parents into buying them one. Tactics range from the Huffy Nag to the Blazing Tantrum. However, the children soon discover that the best ...Show more
Our Precious Lulu by Anne Fine
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Lulu has always been intolerable. From spending every childhood moment worming her way into the affections of her stepmother (spitefully undermining poor Geraldine, her dumpy and hardworking stepsister, along the way) to growing into a sexy, long-legged and ruthless adult. Jobs, lovers, fashionable clot ...Show more
Raking the Ashes by Anne Fine
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children and his manipulative ex-wife.Tilly's own expertise in the arts of decep ...Show more
Stone Menagerie by Anne Fine
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Exciting reissue edition of a favourite Anne Fine novel that explores nonconformity and the pressures to fit in to our society. Ally really doesn't want to go with his mum on her weekly visit to his fragile aunt Chloe at the big Victorian hospital - until he discovers a hidden garden in the grounds. He ...Show more
Taking the Devil's Advice by Anne Fine
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife
The Jamie and Angus Stories by Anne Fine
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
From the moment Jamie sets eyes on Angus in the shop window, with his silky white coat and forlorn stare, he just knows that they belong together. On Christmas morning, they're finally united and soon the toy Highland bull is Jamie's constant companion.
The Killer Cat Strikes Back (#3) by Anne Fine
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: The Killer Cat
'Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush ...'Tuffy, the Killer Cat, knows what he likes. And he isn't loving the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new class! So what's a cat to do ...Mischief and mayhem rule in Anne Fine's brilliant new story, with hilarious illustrations by Steve Cox thr ...Show more
The Killer Cat's Birthday Bash by Anne Fine
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: The Killer Cat
Okay, okay. So spank my furry little bum. I held a party. It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night? So things ended up in a bit of a mess. (Well, more than a mess, really. It was a complete disaster.) But it was not ...Show more
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