The Invitation by Lucy Foley
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical
From the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List, an evocative love story set along the Italian Riviera about a group of charismatic stars who all have secrets and pasts they try desperately -- and dangerously -- to hide. Rome, 1953: Hal, an itinerant journali ...Show more
The Saffron Runners by B.G. Fox
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
Afghanistan, 1827. Suleiman stood in the carnage of his village. At twenty years old he was a man. “I am Suleiman! I take my birthright as Horse Master of all Farkhar". He raised his sword, pointing west to Persia. “No longer will Prince Omid’s men plunder Afghanistan. We will follow you, Persians. We w ...Show more
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
$14.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary/General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better li ...Show more
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
This smart, endearing novel tells of a love triangle involving an ex-monk, the divorced mother of a precocious 6 year old, and God. Michael Christopher, suffering from a major spiritual crisis - and a longstanding battle with a barracuda of an abbot - leaves Our Lady of Bethany monastery after 20 years ...Show more
The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
$12.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Here is the eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault, was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean. The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during ...Show more
River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
From the bestselling author of Time,s Legacy and Lady of Hay comes a thrilling new novel River of Destiny. On the banks of the River Deben in Suffolk lies a set of barns dating back to the Anglo Saxons, within their walls secrets have laid buried for centuries. Zoe and Ken have just moved into one of th ...Show more
The Mesmerist by Barbara Ewing
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Mesmerist Ser.
London, 1838: the controversial practice of Mesmerism, with its genuine practitioners and its fraudulent chancers, has hypnotised the city. Miss Cordelia Preston, a beautiful, ageing, out-of-work actress terrified of returning to the poverty of her childhood, suddenly emerges as a Lady Phreno-Mesmerist. ...Show more
The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
'A HIGH-FINISH PERFORMANCE' Observer (New Faces of Fiction) 'DARK WEIRD AND GLORIOUSLY FEMINIST' Elle UK (Best New Books For 2016) 'A BOLDNESS RARE IN A FIRST NOVEL' Mail on Sunday 'A STRANGE, UNSETTLING STORY' The Times 'ONE TO WATCH' Guardian 'A STORY OF DISPASSIONATE, BLOODY BRILLIANCE' Sunday Expres ...Show more
Under a Blood Red Sky by Kate Furnivall
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free; and the stories told by her friend Anna, beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd - an ...Show more
The Confession of Katherine Howard by Suzannah Dunn
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical
This summer won't be the first time Queen Katherine has come to the throne! When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interest ...Show more
Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex
$10.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Sisters. Rivals. And the love of one man.Isabella and Beatrice d'Este are as different as night and day. Wordly and ambitious, Isabella's beauty and intellect are legendary across the courts of Europe, while her younger sister, a tomboy, prefers horses and the hunt. When Isabella is betrothed to the Mar ...Show more
Henna House: A Novel by Nomi Eve
$8.00 NZD
Category: Historical
This vivid saga begins in Yemen in 1920. Adela Damari's parents' health is failing as they desperately seek a future husband for their young daughter, who is in danger of becoming adopted by the local Muslim community if she is orphaned. With no likely marriage prospects, Adela's situation looks dire-un ...Show more