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A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Based on a real murder at the turn of the century, this outstanding debut novel is a powerful and moving coming-of-age book. Mattie is torn between her familial responsibilities, her desire to be a writer, and the excitement of a first romance. Her dilemmas and choices are reflected in the life of a you ...Show more
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
$22.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: From
When hotel waitress Mattie is given letters by a woman who is later found drowned in the nearby lake, she is forced to reconsider her future in the small rural community in which she has always lived. Will she leave her careworn, widowed father and younger brothers and sisters? Will she be happy marryin ...Show more
Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Carnegie medal-winning Jennifer Donnelly gives a stunning feminist makeover to the fairy tale of Snow White. Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow, and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - ...Show more
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: From 12
Andi lives in New York and is dealing with the emotional turmoil of her younger brother's accidental death. Alex lives in Paris and is a companion to the dauphin, the young son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, during the violent days of the French Revolution. When Andi is sent to Paris to get her out ...Show more
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
A startling, fiercely feminist re-imagining of Cinderella from bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly. Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s th ...Show more
Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. With the love of her life, Joe Bristow, she dreams of escaping the poverty and opening her own tea shop. But one by ...Show more
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category
East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in ...Show more
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
It is 1888 and Jack The Ripper is stalking the streets of Whitechapel. For the people that live there, he is just one more adversary in their everyday battle to survive. Despite working long days at the tea factory, and the constant threat of the Ripper, Fiona Finnegan knows that her life is better than ...Show more
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
$19.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A wealthy family. A deadly secret. A young woman with more to lose than she knows. Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing school education, she will be favourably m ...Show more
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