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A Journal Of The Plague Year

Daniel Defoe · 2020

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

Benediction Classics 2020 Paperback 174 The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than one in five citizens. Defoe goes to great pains to achieve an effect of verisimilitude, iden...

Romanno Bridge

Andrew Greig · 2008

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,953)

Quercus 2008 Paperback 312 A motorcyclist with a stolen ring walks into Rothiemurchus Forest until he finds a quiet place to die. A woman with an eventful past has signed the Official Secrets Act and gone to Dumfries to forget a man and keep out of trouble. In comfortable Crie...

The Dead Of Winter

Stuart MacBride · 2023

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

National Geographic Books 2023 Paperback 384 It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From the outside, Glenfarach looks...

Juliet's Answer One Man's Search For Love And The Elusive Cure For Heartbreak

Glenn Dixon · 2017

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,474)

Affirm Press 2017 Paperback 259 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene... When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he packs his bags for Verona, the setting for Shakespeare's most famous love story, Romeo and Juliet. Determined to heal his heartbreak by helping others, he becomes ...

The Mitford Murders

Jessica Fellowes · 2017

$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.98 | ¥2,315)

Little, Brown Book Group 2017 Paperback 432 Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of ...

The Winter Guest

W. C. Ryan · 2022

$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.98 | ¥2,315)

Bonnier Books 2022 Paperback 344 January 1921, Ireland. Half abandoned and filled with ghosts - both real and imagined - the noble family within co-exist only as the balance of their secrets is kept. For there are mysteries at the heart of this family. And Tom's arrival will s...

Brass Band To Follow

Bryan Walpert · 2021

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,953)

Otago University Press 2021 Paperback 86 Award-winning poet Bryan Walpert's fourth collection of lyric poems ranges in its focus from flowers to infinities, from laundry to eternity, but is founded most fully on what it is to move into middle age - to wait for life's promised ...

The White Witch

Elizabeth Goudge · 2016

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Hendrickson Publishers 2016 Paperback 422 Set in seventeenth-century England at the outbreak of Civil War, "The White Witch" brings to life the fields, forests, and homes of rural Oxfordshire. In the manor house, Margaret Haslewood and her twin children wait for news of her hu...

Island Magic

Elizabeth Goudge · 2016

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

Hendrickson Publishers 2016 Paperback 304 The year is 1888. Rachell and Andre du Frocq live on a run-down farm in the town of St. Pierre, on one of the Channel Islands (between England and the coast of Normandy). The proud parents of five high-spirited children, they have wres...

Home And Away: Award-Winning Travel Stories By New Zealand Writers

Graeme Lay · 2012

$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.98 | ¥2,315)

New Holland 2012 Paperback 235 Travel is in the Kiwi bloodstream: whether bound for Kaiwaka or Kowloon, we have an insatiable appetite for living out of a suitcase and, in select cases, writing about it. Edited by Graeme Lay, this new anthology presents 35 stories by award-win...

Gilgamesh A Verse Play

Chad Gracia and Yusef Komunyakaa · 2006

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

Wesleyan University Press 2006 Hardback 94 Bringing new life to the world's oldest story, Yusef Komunyakaa and Chad Gracia have refashioned a classic Sumerian legend into a compelling verse play. In this ageless saga, Gilgamesh of Uruk, part god and part man, embarks on an oth...

The Peloponnesian War - Athens And Sparta In Savage Conflict, 431-404 Bc

Donald Kagan · 2003

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

HarperCollins 2003 Hardback 511 The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is a vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece. The author concentrates on the human cost of this cataclysmic clash of two great empires, its unprecedented cruelty and the utter d...

Wildflower An Extraordinary Life And Untimely Death In Africa

Mark Seal · 2009

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Hachette Australia 2009 Paperback 232 From her passion for animals, to her storybook love affair, to her hard-fought crusade to save Kenya's beautiful Lake Naivasha, Wildflower is naturalist, filmmaker and lifelong conservationist Joan Root's gripping life story - a stunning a...

The Narrows

Michael Connelly · 2014

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,676)

Grand Central Publishing 2014 Paperback 480 In the depths of the Nevada desert, FBI agent Rachel Walling and former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must confront The Poet, a terrifying serial killer who leads them down a dark and twisted path. FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets ...

Hush, Little Baby

Shane Dunphy · 2008

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Penguin Adult 2008 Paperback 272 Five heart-stopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children... Clive, a thirteen-year-old victim of terrifying demonic visions, tells frightening stories of abuse and impriso...

Mansfield

C. K. Stead · 2004

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Vintage Uk 2004 Paperback The three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield explored in this novel are in part the story of the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the "new kind of fiction" which she felt the times ...

All the Nice Girls

Barbara Anderson · 1993

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Victoria University Press 1993 Paperback 223 All the Nice Girls is set in and around the Davenport naval base in the winter of 1962. Sophie Flynn's life is becoming alarmingly complicated. While her husband is at sea... The author's insights into human behaviour are both movin...

The Severed Land

Maurice Gee · 2017

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

Penguin 2017 Paperback 'From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reaches through the wall and pulls him to safety. ...

100 Science Myths Explored

Nikole Bamford · 2010

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,155)

The Lagoon Group 2010 Hardback 106 Discover the truth behind 100 myths with entertaining explanations that are backed by scientific facts. This compact little book explains some of your biggest questions about the universe, or just your every day quandaries about goldfish memo...

Native New Zealand Flowering Plants

J. T. Salmon · 1999

NZ$28.00 (€14.04 | $15.47 | £11.71 | ¥2,470)

Reed 1999 Softcover 264 Native New Zealand Flowering Plants is a comprehensive guide to New Zealand's richly diverse and exceptionally beautiful array of flowing plants. Over 600 species are included - from well-known and often cultivated trees and shrubs such as pohutukawas a...