The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life by William Nicholson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to Edenfield, an English village in Sussex. It is home to rich and poor, young and old, incomers and folk who've lived there for ever. Among the incomers is mother of two Laura, who, twenty years on, is still pining for Nick, her first love at university. He dumped her, broke her heart and went ...Show more
A Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful ...Show more
The Increment by David Ignatius
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An anonymous email arrives via the CIA's website: someone on the inside of Iran's nuclear program is apparently ready to talk. Harry Pappas, head of the Agency's Iran desk, knows that if the contact is real, he's looking at the intelligence coup of the decade. But the unconfirmed information his informa ...Show more
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome ...Show more
Edge of Madness by Michael Dobbs
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees, switching off energy lifelines, crippling the financial markets, starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown while, on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seaboard is plunged into dar ...Show more
Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Summer, sweltering, 1996. A book warehouse in western Massachusetts. A man at the beginning of his adult life -- and the end of his career rope -- becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most auspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh, a ninetysomet ...Show more
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is 18-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There ...Show more
Devlin Diary by PHILLIPS Christi
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the acclaimed author of The Rossetti Letter comes a haunting novel of intrigue, romance, and murder that shifts tantalizingly between present-day
Captured by Neil Cross
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Even though he is still young, Kenny has just weeks to live. Before he dies, he wants to find his childhood best friend Callie Barton and thank her for the kindness she showed him when they were at school together. But when Kenny begins his search, he discovers that Callie Barton has gone missing. Altho ...Show more
Loser's Town ARG09 by DEPP Daniel
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Summoned to the trailer of a Hollywood star who's receiving death threats, former stuntman-turned-private investigator, David Spandau, assumes this will be another routine case. It turns out to be anything but. A-list actor Bobby Dye has become entangled with B-list gangster Richie Stella, who just wa ...Show more
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Number 1 bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues her series, "The Cousins War", with Jacquetta Woodville, mother of the White Queen. Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry ...Show more
The Longshot by Katie M. Kitamura
$28.90 NZD
Category: World fiction
Cal was the one. The kid had everything a fighter needed and if he didn't become a champion then Riley would have no one to blame but himself...Cal and his long-standing friend and trainer Riley are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with the legendary Rivera, who has never been beaten. ...Show more