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Child of the Ruins by Kate Furnivall
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I am careful, extremely careful. I used to live in Berlin, on Pr ...Show more
Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Italy, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost? One bright autumn morning, architect Isabella Berotti sits at a cafe in the vibrant centre of Bellina, when a woman she's never met asks her to watch her ten-year-old daughter, just for a moment. Reluctantly, Isabel ...Show more
Liberation by Kate Furnivall
$23.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Italy, 1945: as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated cities, its population fights each other to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate - her mother has abandoned them already and her brother is being drawn into the mafia. Early one morning, among the ruins of the bombed ...Show more
Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The new novel from the author of The Russian Concubine and The White Pearl. 'I'll find him. I will.' It's 1932 and 27-year-old Jessica Kenton is living London life to the full when her younger brother Tim, an ancient Egyptian archaeology expert, goes missing. Teaming up with Sir Montague Chamford - who ...Show more
The Betrayal by Kate Furnivall
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Could you kill someone? Someone you love? Paris, 1938. This is the story of twin sisters divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite and they both have something to prove and s ...Show more
The Concubine's Secret by Kate Furnivall
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Russian Concubine Ser.
*** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. ***** China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her fath ...Show more
The Guardian of Lies by Kate Furnivall
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Survivors. 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances ...Show more
The Jewel of St Petersburg by Kate Furnivall
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Russian Concubine Ser.
*** THE Sunday Times TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal. ***** Russia, 1910. Young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersbu ...Show more
The Liberation by Kate Furnivall
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Italy, 1945: as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated cities, its population fights each other to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate - her mother has abandoned them already and her brother is being drawn into the mafia. Early one morning, among the ruins of the bombed ...Show more
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Russian Concubine Ser.
A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, ...Show more
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
$39.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Junchow, China, 1928. Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river's grime bodies are tossed - those of thieves and Communists alike. So every time Lydia steals from someone to feed herself and her mother, she takes her life into her ...Show more