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I'm Not Scared

Niccolò Ammaniti · 2003 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Canongate Books Ltd 2003 Paperback, 208pp. The hottest summer of the 20th century. A tiny community of five houses in the middle of wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. In the midst of …

The Biographer's Tale

A. S. Byatt · 2001 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Vintage 2001 Paperback, 272pp. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this erotic, playful, and provocative novel about the collision of art and truth. Phineas G. Nanson, a disillusioned post-graduate student, decides to leave his abstract studies and pursue a …

Northern Lights

Nora Roberts · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.69 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Doubleday 2004 Paperback, 562pp. Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street-and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. Aside from sorti…

Faraway Girl

Fleur Beale · 2022 · Book Haven

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Penguin 2022 Paperback, 240pp. Etta is worried about her brother, Jamie. The doctors can find nothing wrong with him, but he is getting weaker by the day. At breakfast one morning, he seems to have lost it completely- In a voice as pale as his face, he said, 'I think I can see a…

Ascension

Steven Galloway · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Text Publishing 2004 Paperback, 277pp. New York, 1976. Sixty-six-year-old Salvo Ursari stands 400 metres above the earth, suspended on a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. He has promised his wife Anna this will be his final walk on the wire. So begin…

Found Wanting

Robert Goddard · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Corgi Books 2009 Paperback, 448pp. The car jolts to a halt at the pavement's edge, the driver waving through the windscreen to attract Richard's attention. He starts with astonishment. The driver is Gemma, his ex-wife. He has not seen or spoken to her for several years. They hav…

Despite The Falling Snow

Shamim Sarif · 2004 · Book Haven

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Review 2004 Paperback, 352pp. The enthralling narrative of Shamim Sarif's powerful second novel moves between present day Boston and 1950s Moscow. After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Russia, Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business in the States…

The Lie: The Enthralling Richard And Judy Book Club Favourite

Helen Dunmore · 2014 · Book Haven

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Hutchinson 2014 Paperback, 304pp. Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers. Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, …

The Associate

John Grisham · 2009 · Book Haven

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Century 2009 Hardback, 384pp. A rock, a hard place and the biggest legal battle the planet has ever seen. Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation: he's good looking, has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him. But he has a secret fro…

Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know: The Autobiography

Ranulph Fiennes · 2008 · Book Haven

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Hodder & Stoughton 2008 Paperback, 352pp. "Ranulph Fiennes has traveled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth. In the process he nearly died on several occasions, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, and raised millions of pounds for charity. He discovered…

White Moko: Stories From My Life

Tim Tipene · 2020 · Book Haven

NZ$27.50 (€13.78 | $15.19 | £11.50 | ¥2,425)

One Tree House 2020 Paperback, 256pp. A memoir from award-winning writer and inspirational speaker Tim Tipene. Tim founded the Warrior Kids programme 22 years ago. Himself the product of rape, he spent a miserable childhood in which he was abused by both his birth and foster fam…

Josh

Ivan Southall · 1981 · Book Haven

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1981 Paperback, 200pp. Hurry along boy, don't sit there like a fool. That's not the Plowman way. From the minute Josh steps off the train at Ryan Creek, he knows that fitting in is going to be hard work. Maybe that s because he's a Plowman, which in Ryan Creek is the next best t…

Andrew Down Under : The Story of an Immigrant Dog

Anne Manchester · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$23.50 (€11.78 | $12.98 | £9.82 | ¥2,073)

Makaro Press 2018 Paperback. 'Andrew the Pekinese is a pampered pooch in Palm Springs, the United States. He spends his time lounging by the pool, having his fur shampooed and riding in the basket of Colin’s bike. It’s paradise, with the exception of a dangerous cactus garden an…

Picking Up The Pieces

Paul Britton · 2001 · Book Haven

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Corgi Books 2001 Paperback, 598pp. "From Britain's foremost criminal psychologist and bestselling author, a companion volume to his award-winning autobiography, The Jigsaw Man. Paul Britton can "walk through the minds" of those who murder, rape, torture, extort and kidnap. That …

Searching for Schindler

Tom Keneally · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Vintage Books 2008 Softcover, 304pp. 'In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his l…

Saigon

Anthony Grey · 1983 · Book Haven

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Pan Books 1983 Paperback, 752pp. Vietnam's heady tropical landscape captivates fifteen-year-old Joseph Sherman on a hunting expedition to French colonial Saigon with his family in 1925. He is lured back again and again by his enduring fascination for the country and for Lan, a b…

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Sue Townsend · 2000 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Penguin Books 2000 Paperback, 416pp. Now 30 1/4, Adrian's still worrying; Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate no…

Richard Pratt

James Kirby and Rod Myer · 2009 · Book Haven

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John Wiley & Sons Australia, Limited 2009 Paperback, 304pp. Insightful and revealing, this book is the fi rst to tell the Richard Pratt story in full. From humble Polish-Jewish immigrant beginnings, Pratt became one of Australia's business success stories. He was a paradoxical m…

Different Dragons

Jean Little · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.69 | £3.55 | ¥750)

Puffin Books 2005 Paperback, 106pp. Ben is apprehensive about staying over at his Aunt Rose’s house while his parents are away. but with the promise of a big surprise, Ben reluctantly agrees to at least give it a try. only, when the surprise arrives, it is not what Ben expects a…

Time Is the Simplest Thing

Clifford D. Simak · 1961 · Book Haven

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Pan 1961 Paperback, 206pp. And the creature spoke Hl, PAL, it said, I TRADE YOU WITH MY MIND. Blaine's mind screamed soundlessly in outraged surprise . for suddenly without warning he was a double thing - himself and this other creature. For one chaotic instant he saw as the cre…