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Cover Her Face (Faber 80th Faber Firsts) by P.D. James
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
St Cedd's Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son's sudden e ...Show more
Death Comes To Pemberley by P D JAMES
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of Pride and Prejudice, and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly-crafted detective story. The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, E ...Show more
Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of ...Show more
Death Comes to Pemberley (TV Tie-In) by P. D. James
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of ...Show more
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
As a companion volume to The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories, a further six of P. D. James's ingenious short stories are published here together for the first time.As the six murderous tales unfold, the dark motive of revenge is revealed at the heart of each. Bullying schoolmasters receive their come ...Show more
The Children of Men (Revolutionary Writing) by P.D. James
$19.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is until ...Show more
The Lighthouse by P. D. James
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of ...Show more
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn i ...Show more
The Murder Room by P.D. James
$29.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close ...Show more
The Part-Time Job by P. D. James
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Come celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, the undisputed "Queen of Crime," with a dark, twisted take on how the best revenge is served ice cold. Willing to wait decades to dispatch the bully who tormented his youth, our narrator has a plan--and the unwavering patience and brutal f ...Show more
The Private Patient by P.D. James
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Adam Dalgliesh Mystery | Reading Level: very good
When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dor ...Show more
Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography by P. D. James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks bac ...Show more
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