The Jewel Box by Anna Davis
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Grace Rutherford is the one and only Diamond Sharp, the 'It' girl of 1920s London, whose weekly newspaper column delights readers with tales of her nightly escapades: the dinners, the dancing, the hairdos, the fashion, the men...Caught up in the glitz and glamour of the day, Grace begins a passionate af ...Show more
I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It was four o'clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors. Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child - and in a way, she was. She walked into the nursery, where a baby girl lay sleeping. The infant didn't wake when the woman placed he ...Show more
In Praise of Mothers by BLACK INC
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In this special anthology of quotations, humanity's greatest thinkers and poets capture the unique bond between mother and child. With over 100 moving quotes from writers throughout the centuries - from Shakespeare to Salinger, Mark Twain to J.K. Rowling -In Praise of Mothersis the perfect choice for th ...Show more
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A beautiful and thought provoking novel: lost to history by the chronicles of men, here at last is the dazzling story of Dinah, Jacob's only daughter in the Book of Genesis. 'My name means nothing to you. My memory is dust. This is not your fault or mine. The chain connecting mother to daughter was brok ...Show more
I Came To Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
"Caroline Overington's bestseller is a heart-breaking, utterly compelling novel of a family ripped apart.It was four o'clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors. Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child - and in a way, she was. She ...Show more
Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
$43.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils, especially th ...Show more
The Daughters Of Mars by Tom Keneally
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1915 sisters Naomi and Sally Durance answer a call for nurses to join the war effort. They are escaping the family dairy farm in the Macleay Valley, and they carry a secret with them. Soon they are in Egypt, where they are put to work on the Red Cross hospital ship Archimedes as it patrols the Dardan ...Show more
The Innocent by Taylor Stevens
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. Now, after years of searching, childhood survivors of the group have found the girl in Argentina. But getting her out is ...Show more
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'...so taut you may need to remind yourself to breathe.' - Sun-Herald '...packed with suspense and insight. If you enjoy reading Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, this is a novel which will absorb you.' - Highlife What would push you to commit a crime? Assistant District Attorney Nina Frost prosecutes ...Show more
Music from a Distant Room by Stephanie Johnson
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
After jazz pianist Carl TylerÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs funeral in Auckland, his lover Tamara and mother Nola tell each other stories of ...Show more
Foreign City by Charlotte Grimshaw
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
An intricately written novel about chance encounters, overseas experience, families, identity, art and literature. Smart, intimate, often very funny... underlined with ideas about the separations between fiction and life. - Sunday Star Times. Brilliantly written... immensely satisfying. - North and ...Show more
Flashback Forward by John Cairney
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Tam Cochrane is a sickly lad, confined to his bed in Glasgow in the 1880s. His only experience of adventure and the outside world is through books - that is until his father decides to sell up and head for New Zealand. As they take the four-month journey by ship, Tam's health begins to improve, and with ...Show more