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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Wordsworth Hardback Library | Reading Level: very good

Part of a special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, that innovatively use foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set. In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy- how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. ...Show more

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

$10.00 NZD

Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics S. | Reading Level: very good

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre none the less emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian society. In his introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition Michael Mason discusses the literary critical history of Jane Eyre and provides fresh insights into Charlotte Bronte's great novel. ...Show more

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Tu by Patricia Grace

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him to find out what happened, Tu is brought face to face with the past. What really happened to the three brothers as the Maori Battalion fought in the hills and valleys of Italy is contained in the pages of his war journal, and this he now decides to give to his niece and nephew. Patricia Grace has drawn on the war experiences of her father and other relatives and ventured into new territory by writing about the world of war and soldiers. The result is a novel of great authenticity and high drama from one of our finest storytellers. ...Show more

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Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

$8.00 NZD

Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by James Ivory WINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARD Nominated for Four Oscars A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club P ick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. ...Show more

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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

$12.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known ...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul ...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secr et shame ...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece. 'Enormous and brilliant ...this mammoth tale seems to touch all human emotion - love and hate, loyalty and treachery, hope and despair. This is truly a novel to get lost in' Cosmopolitan 'A historical saga of such breadth and density ...Follett succeeds brilliantly in combining hugeness and detail to create a novel imbued with the rawness, violence and blind faith of the era' Sunday Express ...Show more

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No Return by Brett Battles

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

An F-18 Navy fighter careens out of the blue sky above the Mojave Desert. A TV cameraman, who grew up in small town just miles away, can see what is going to happen next. Frantically, Wes Stewart races to the downed jet and tries to save the pilot's life. When the plane explodes, Wes escapes without har m - and plunges into a murderous conspiracy. It's been fifteen years since Wes has been back to the desolate landscape of his childhood. Now, he finds himself up against the US military, the local police and someone who is tracking his every move. In the moments he spent with the dying pilot, Wes discovered something that could get him killed. But while he tries to untangle a web of lies and secrets surrounding the crash, another danger is stalking him. And this one he will never see coming. ...Show more

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Kompromat by Stanley Johnson

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

2016. The world is on the brink of crisis.In Britain, the British Prime Minister is fighting a referendum he thought couldn't be lost.In the USA, brash showman, Ronald Craig is fighting a Presidential Election nobody thought he could win.In the USSR, Igor Popov, the Russian President, is using both even ts as part of his plan to destabilise the West.Three men who could change the course of the world forever.In his brilliant new thriller, Stanley Johnson, former MEP,has written an alternative account of the seismic events that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. ...Show more

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Munich by Robert Harris

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction

MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place.As Chamberlain?s plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer?s train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides.As Britain?s darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they?re hiding.Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?'A brilliantly constructed spy novel? Observer'Grips from start to finish ... Superb? Mail on Sunday ...Show more

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Cujo - A Novel by Stephen King

$12.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: near fine

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The #1 national bestseller for Stephen King's rabid fans, Cujo "hits the jugular" (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a sick bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour th e mind. Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether. Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inescapably drawing in all the people around him, makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has ever written. "A genuine page-turner that grabs you and holds you and won't let go" (Chattanooga Times), Cujo will forever change how you view man's best friend. ...Show more

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The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser (Photographer)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good

Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of 'The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel. The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime - tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines, buried treasure and Black Spots, devilish Dons and ghastly dungeons, plots, duels, escapes, savage rituals, tender romance and steaming passion, all to the accompaniment of ringing steel, thunderous broadsides, sweeping film music, and the sound of cursing extras falling in the water and exchanging period dialogue. Even Hollywood buccaneers were never like this. ...Show more

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True Blue by David Baldacci

$8.00 NZD

Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good

The thrilling new blockbuster from the international bestselling author Mason Mace Perry was a maverick cop on the DC police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her career, her liberty – and spent two years in prison. Now b ack on the outside, Mace is trying to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there's a vindictive US attorney on her tail and he's just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars... Roy Kingman is a young lawyer, still getting used to his high-paid job at a law firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm, his fate becomes entangled with Mace's, as the two team up to investigate. But as their enquiries gather pace, Roy and Mace soon find themselves in unexpected territory; drawn into both the private and public world of the nation's capital, as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more complex. And possibly lethal... ...Show more

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The God Boy by Ian Cross

$12.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good

A CLASSIC NZ NOVEL ABOUT A BOY GROWING UP IN A SMALL TOWN.

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