The Foundling by Stacey Halls
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of The Familiars, and set against the vibrant backdrop of Georgian London, The Foundling explores families, secrets, class, equality, power and the meaning of motherhood.
Robinson Crusoe: Popular Penguins by Daniel Defoe
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my h ...Show more
Ragtime by E L Doctorow
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtimeseamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American history in the years before the First World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introducti ...Show more
500 Beautiful Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY and TRUMPERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS?Whether you've answered yes, no or 'sorry, I didn't catch that', 500 Beautiful Words You Should Know is for you. It offers words that flow EXQUISITELY off the tongue; word ...Show more
Words On Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell Fans of More Happy Than Not and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia. When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart ...Show more
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature, for fans of Sally Rooney and Nora Ephron Love was the final consolation, would set ablaze the fields of my life in one go, leaving nothing behind. I thought of it a ...Show more
Like Mother by Cassandra Austin
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It's 1969 and mankind has leapt up to the moon, but a young mother in small-town Australia can't get past the kitchen door. Louise Ashland -is exhausted - her husband, Steven, is away on the road and her mother, Gladys, won't leave her alone. At least her baby, Dolores, has finally stopped screaming an ...Show more
Where the Line Breaks by Michael Burrows
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Unknown Digger is Australia's most famous WWI poet. But for decades, his identity has remained a mystery. Enter Matthew Denton - a PhD student at University College, London - who believes the unknown digger to be fact one of Australia's greatest war heroes- Lieutenant Alan Lewis VC of the 10th Light ...Show more
The Gates of Athens (#1 Athenian) by Conn Iggulden
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Athenian
The bestselling author of The Falcon of Sparta returns to the Ancient World with an epic exploration of power 490 B.C. Two great empires are about to go to war . . . The momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta as rival powers and political systems will last for twenty-seven years (431 to 404 BC). I ...Show more
Animal Farm (Dyslexia-Friendly Classics) (Barrington Stoke) by George Orwell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dyslexia-Friendly Classics Ser.
Orwell's powerful, unnerving and timeless allegory of oppression and rebellion, brought to life for a new age of readers in a stunning dyslexia-friendly edition. When the lazy and drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm forgets to feed his livestock the down-trodden and over-worked animals unite to take back th ...Show more
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, ...Show more
A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The thrilling follow up to the Sunday Times bestseller Hitler's Secret, as Tom Wilde returns to unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy. Sweden, 1942 - Two old friends meet. They are cousins. One is Prince George, Duke of Kent, brothe ...Show more