The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more, Mma Makutsi still does not have a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and is feeling rather tetchy herself. But Precious knows that with a little patience, just as the wide river will gently make its way round any obstacle, so will everything work out for the best in the end ... ...Show more

Life Of Pi by Yann Martel

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

That Part Was True by Deborah McKinlay

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Reminiscent of ONE DAY meets Nicholas Sparks, THAT PART WAS TRUE is a bittersweet debut about falling in love and risking it all.   When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. As their letters criss-cross the o cean that lies between them, friendship and then romance blossom despite Jackson's colourful love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be-married daughter. Little by little, Eve and Jack begin to believe that they may have a chance to change their lives and possibly get a second chance at happiness. They just need to actually meet . . . ...Show more

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'. ...Show more

Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina; Lisa C. Hayden (Translator)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARD Soviet Russia, 1930. Zuleikha, the "pitiful hen," lives with her brutal husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law in a small Tartar village. When Murtaza is executed by communist soldiers, she is sent into exi le to a remote region on the Angara River in Siberia. Hundreds die of hunger and exhaustion on the journey and over the first difficult winter, yet exile is the making of Zuleikha. As she gets to know her fellow survivors -- among them an eccentric German doctor, a painter, and the conscience-stricken Commander Ignatov, her husband's killer --Zuleikha begins to build a new life far removed from the one she left behind. Guzel Yakhina's outstanding debut -- inspired by her grandmother's childhood memories of being exiled to the Gulag --has been translated into twenty-one languages, capturing the hearts of readers all over the world. ...Show more

Broken Harbour by Tana French

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Rich ie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk ... ...Show more

Clarissa or The History of a Young Lady Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life and Particularly Showing the Distresses that may Attend the Misconduct both of Parents and Children in Relation to Marriage, Volumes I and II by Samuel Richardson

$45.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

$25.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Ralph Rashleigh by James Tucker

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Europeans by Henry James

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good