Sun Between Their Feet by Lessing Doris
$6.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse start ...Show more
This Was The Old Chief's Country by Lessing Doris
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was - and still is - the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading: tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled ...Show more
The Grass is Singing by Doris May Lessing
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the blac ...Show more
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records he ...Show more
Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
It is 1667 and Sir Francis Courteney and his son Henry "Hal" Courteney are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa. They have a letter from Charles II sanctioning them to hunt down and capture enemy ships "beyond the line& ...Show more
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academ ...Show more
Hannah's List by Macomber, Debbie
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
On the anniversary of his beloved wife Hannah's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter from her. In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final, seemingly impossible request. "I want you to marry again." To that end, she asks him to consider three women. First on Hannah's list is her cousin ...Show more
The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper of Lost Things and Three Things About Elsie.'Hugely entertaining . . . funny and heart-warming' Woman & Home 'A gentle, warm-hearted book that had me rooting for all the ...Show more
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
$10.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."--from The Alchemist The Alchemist tells the story of Santiago, the young Andalusian shepherd who dreams of buried treasure in Egypt and embarks upon a challenging journey to find it. With all the simplicity and symbolic richness of a fable, C ...Show more
The New Kingdom (HB) by Wilbur Smith
$14.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
The first book in a brilliant new series. A brand-new Egyptian novel from the master of adventure fiction, Wilbur Smith.In the heart of EgyptUnder the watchful eye of the godsA new power is risingIn the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting ...Show more
Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction
It is 1667 and the Dutch and the English are at war. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Henry 'Hal' Courtney, in their fighting caravel Lady Edwina, are on patrol off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa: lying in wait for one of the galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden ...Show more
Monsoon by Wilbur A. Smith
$12.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Series: The Courtneys
Wilbur Smith is at the height of his storytelling powers in Monsoon, a tremendous epic of adventure, mystery, and intrigue set in 18th-century Africa.