Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
Daughters and Sons by Ivy Compton-Burnett
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Original, artful and elegant... To read her for the first time is a singular experience' Hilary Mantel'Cruel genius' Maggie NelsonSabine Ponsonby presides over her large household with despotic force, rivalled only by her imperious daughter, Hetta. As her needling cruelties cause one governess after an ...Show more
The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
$7.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: John Corey 2 | Reading Level: very good
April 1986 : American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad - Arabic for 'lion ' - loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his reli ...Show more
Goldeneye by John Gardner
$5.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Series: James Bond 007 | Reading Level: good
Losing Nelson by Barry Unsworth
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero--Lord Horatio Nelson--he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson, Britain's greatest admiral, who lost his own life defeating N ...Show more
Hooking Up - Essays and Fiction by Tom Wolfe
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A perfect introduction to Tom Wolfe's brilliant and masterful journalism.In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience a ...Show more
The Virtues of War - A Novel of Alexander the Great by Steven Pressfield
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life.So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the ter ...Show more
Los Gusanos by John Sayles
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning writer John Sayles's critically acclaimed novel explores fifty years of Cuban-American relations. Set in Miami in 1981, Los Gusanos is the vivid and moving account of one extended family's life in Cuba and the United States. With pathos and understanding, Sayles introduces us to a memorabl ...Show more
Covent Garden In The Snow by Wake Jules
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Jack West Jr | Reading Level: very good
The thrilling bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the upcoming Jack West Jr novel The Three Secret Cities. "Exciting and entertaining." Chicago Sun Times "A nonstop rollercoaster ride." Library JournalBOOK 1 IN THE JACK WEST JR SERIES Two thousand years ago ...Show more
The Second Marriage by Gill Paul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a tale of love, sacrifice and betrayal, available now. Published in the US as Jackie and Maria. JACKIE When her first marriage ends in tragedy, Jackie Kennedy fears she'll never love again. But all that changes when she encounters... ...Show more