Firethorn by Sarah Micklem
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy
A sumptuous love story set within a quasi-medieval world. A foundling child, Luck - named for the colour of her god-favoured copper hair - is fortunate to be taken in by one of the Blood. She remembers little of her past, her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household is ...Show more
The Winter Palace : A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
$14.00 NZD
Category: Historical
The epic, sensuous story of Catherine the Great's ruthless rise to power, through the eyes of a young girl groomed as the Empress's spy in 18th Century Russia. When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schoo ...Show more
The King's War - A Commoner, the Crown and Britain's Greatest Struggle by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories by Diana Gabaldon
$16.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: Outlander Ser.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana Gabaldon Among the seven spellbinding pieces there is "The Custom of the Army," which begi ...Show more
The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
$14.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet, once carried proudly by Margaret like a crown upon her head, is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous ...Show more
Dark Tides (#2 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical
Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer, wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to ...Show more
Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact (#2) by Alison Goodman
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Series: Lady Helen
The second novel in the thrilling LADY HELEN series sees Helen following orders that could bring about betrayl and annhilation. Ages 12+ Summer, 1812 After the scandalous events at her presentation ball in London, Lady Helen has taken refuge at the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton, where she is tr ...Show more
The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton
$15.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe--and one brav ...Show more
Death's Mistress (Nicci Chronicles #1) by Terry Goodkind
$18.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Series: The\Nicci Chronicles Ser.
Death's Mistress: Sister of Darkness will launch The Nicci Chronicles, Terry Goodkind's entirely new series with a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth. One-time lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as "Death's Mistress" and the "Sl ...Show more
Chainfire by Terry Goodkind
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy
The next book in the Sword of Truth series from bestselling author Terry Goodkind - fantasy adventure on a grand scale featuring the popular wizard-hero Richard Cypher. The Sword of Truth is Terry Goodkind's wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring epic fantasy set in a fascinating world rich in ...Show more
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut--part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are ...Show more
Blood's Pride by Evie Manieri
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Series: The\Shattered Kingdoms Ser.
'I loved these characters, even though I knew it was going to hurt. Heart-wrenching. Poignant. Lovely' - Brandon Sanderson Is any price too high for freedom? A generation has passed since the Norlanders' great ships bore down on Shadar, and the Dead Ones slashed and burned the city into submission, en ...Show more