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Black Sky, Black Sea by Izzet Celasin
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
1977. Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making. Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oak's interest in politics leads him to join the annual May Day rallies. Ther ...Show more
Black Sphere (S.T.O.R.M. #3) by E. L. Young
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
STORM includes: Will Knight aged 14, an inventive genius who creates cutting-edge gadgets; Andrew Minkel aged 14, a software millionaire and the founder of STORM; and Gaia aged 14, a brilliant chemist with a habit of blowing stuff up. Six scientists were working on Project FIREball. Now five are dead an ...Show more
Black Spiral (#3 Black Spiral) by Eileen Merriman
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Black Spiral
The sequel to Violet Black and Black Wolf - THE SUSPENSE-FILLED CONCLUSION TO THE BLACK SPIRAL TRILOGY Violet and Johnno have escaped the Foundation's compounds. Reunited, they need somewhere safe for the three of them to hide- Violet, Johnno and their unborn child. Beat. Heartbeat. One, two, three. I o ...Show more
Black Spring by Alison Croggon
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Lina is enchanting, vibrant but wilful. And her eyes betray her for what she truly is - a witch. With her childhood companion, Damek, she has grown up privileged and spoiled and the pair are devoted to each other to the point of obsession. But times are changing. Vendetta is coming. And tragedy is stalk ...Show more
Black Sun (#1) by Owen Matthews
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
1961. Hidden deep within the forests of central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any map- a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists, technicians and engineers are building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever see - three thousand times more powerfu ...Show more
Black Sun (#1 Alexander Vasin Trilogy) by Owen Matthews
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
1961. Hidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any map- a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists and technicians is building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever see - three thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. But days ...Show more
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War Engl ...Show more
Black Swan Green
$60.00 NZD
Category: No Category
David Mitchell comes home - to England in 1982, and is in the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth and he stammers. 13 chap ...Show more
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor -- covert stammerer and reluctant poet -- anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands Wa ...Show more
Black Tide (Jack Irish #2) by Peter Temple
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Jack Irish Ser. | Reading Level: good
Jack Irish - gambler, lawyer, finder of missing people - is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack's father. It's an offer he soon regrets. As Jack begins his search, he discovers that prodigal sons som ...Show more
Black Tide TV Tie-in by Peter Temple
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Jack Irish
Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people - is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld, when he agrees to look for the son of an old workmate of his father's. It's an offer he soon has cause to regret, as the trail of Gary Connors leads him into the worl ...Show more
Black Tide: The Story Behind the Rena Disaster by John Julian
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The MV Rena was making 17 knots when she ploughed into the Astrolabe Reef in October 2011. On her way from Napier towards Tauranga carrying 1368 containers, 1700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 200 tonnes of marine diesel she impaled her bow on a pinnacle of rock. A few days later, fluids and lubricants se ...Show more