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A Country Road, a Tree by Jo Baker
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of marching Nazi soldiers along the Champs-Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes a last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. As war takes hold, he will put his own life and that of ...Show more
Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice The Servant's Story by Jo Baker
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill ...Show more
Longbourn: The unputdownable Richard and Judy pick by Jo Baker
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
"'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.'It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will b ...Show more
The Body Lies by Baker, Jo
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
---A GUARDIAN BEST SUMMER READ--- 'A very modery interrogation of violent fiction. Fiendishly readable' SARAH MOSS, GUARDIAN 'Gripping and fast-paced' Good Housekeeping 'Powerful and moving' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countrys ...Show more
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A dark, thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of LONGBOURN- a work of riveting suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high. What if you realised the subject your student is studying is you? When a young writ ...Show more
The Picture Book by Jo Baker
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is a family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a champion cyclist who survives the D-Day Landings on a military ...Show more
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