This Storm (#2 Second LA Quartet) by James Ellroy
38.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller | Series: #2 in the second L.A. Quartet
From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) - a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
Ghosts of the Past by Tony Park
35.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller
Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death.Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for his help with a story.Susan is chasing information about Nic ...Show more
Preservation by Jock Serong
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Seventeen men survived the shipwreck of the rum-smuggling Sydney Cove--but only three are picked up on a beach near the isolated settlement of Sydney in 1797. The three men have walked hundreds of miles across an alien landscape. They are distressed and injured. Their accounts of the ordeal are evasive- ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernieres
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War, and its effects on their marriage, behind them.Back home in England, Rosie's sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches ...Show more
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The brilliant debut novel from the award-winning author of Maggie & Me South Africa, 1901, the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise: they will be safe. Johannesburg, 2010. Sixtee ...Show more
The Unreliable People by Rosetta Allan
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Is all love doomed under a heartless regime? Antonina is a student at the prestigious Academy of Art in St Petersburg, though at times she feels she might be a better fit at the Centre of Non-conformist Art across town. She knows she stands out as different, being neither Russian, Korean nor Kazak - and ...Show more
All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas -- and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. With her uncanny knack for understanding the hidden lives of women, Elizabeth J. Church captures both the iconic extravagance of an era and ...Show more
Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists - to unworldly Joan it is dazzling. After a chance meeting with Russian-born Sonya and Leo, Joan is swept up in the glamour and energy of the duo, and finds herself growing closer and closer to them both. But allegiance is a slippery thing. ...Show more
Lilac Girls (#1) by Martha Hall Kelly
27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Whitney Scharer's storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details . . . This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portrait of the forging of an artist's soul.' Madeleine Miller, author of Circe 'I'd rather take a photograph than be one,' says Lee Miller, shortly after she arrives in Paris ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more