A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Military Library
THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II "A Bridge Too Far" is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. In thi ...Show more
A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A high-octane story from the great Eric Ambler of a journalist on the run in the south of FranceLucia Bernardi was last seen driving a car at top speed away from a villa - and the body of her murdered Iraqi lover - in Switzerland. Now disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to find her in the south ...Show more
A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark
$39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Readers of Shauna Lawless and Thilde Kold Holdt will love this Celtic-inflected adventure by critically acclaimed, grimdark epic fantasy novelist, Anna Smith Spark. A Sword of Bronze and Ashes combines the fierce beauty of Celtic myth with grimdark battle violence. It's a lyrical, folk horror high fanta ...Show more
Against Her Will by Robyn Sultan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Successful businesswoman Charli and her teenage daughter Jamie have always been close. Then one day, Jamie makes a decision that will plummet her into a world of intrigue, drug dealing, and crime, that could rock the whole foundation of her relationship with her mother and friends. When Jack's father Ni ...Show more
Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories by FLAME TREE STUDIO
$59.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
A chilling new collection of supernatural tales from the Victorian master of horror, and the subtle manipulation of dread. Algernon Blackwood, a founding father of modern ghost and horror stories, is one of the great horror writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. With M.R. James, William Hope ...Show more
Archipelago: An Atlas of Imagined Islands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Think of this atlas as the beginning of a journey and a kind of island guidebook, a rough guide to far-flung places, a Baedeker of make-believe, and a new page waiting to be filled. The cycle of Crusoes continues' Huw Lewis-Jones Islomania is a recognized affliction. But what is it about islands that ...Show more
Atlantic Fury by Hammond Innes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Burial by Neil Cross
$17.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
DoP 2009 - UK Can your guiltiest secret ever be buried? Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life: the party that led to the sudden, shocking death of a young woman. Only he and Bob, an untrustworthy old acquaintance, know what really happened and they have resolved to keep it tha ...Show more
Chilling Crime Short Stories by VARIOUS
$59.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
A powerful collection of chilling crime with new, modern stories and classic tales reaching back into ancient, medieval, Elizabethan and Victorian fiction: from Oedipus Rex and Thomas More's story of the Princes in the Tower to Scheherazade's 'The Three Apples' and the chilling crime fiction of Dickens, ...Show more
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Shortlited for the 2007 man Booker Prize. From the award-winning author of 'Clear 'comes an epic novel of startling originality. If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's infamous court jester, whos ...Show more
Death Makes a Prophet by John Bude
$15.00 NZD
$24.99 (39% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children of Osiris, led by the eccentric High Prophet, Eustace K. Mildmann. The cult is a seething hotbed of petty res ...Show more