The Sun Sister (#6 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Series: The\Seven Sisters Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author comes the latest instalment in an epic multi-million selling series, The Seven Sisters. To the outside world, Electra D'Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.Yet beneath the veneer ...Show more
Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: near fine
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
$36.99 NZD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally scratching numbers into his fell ...Show more
Good Sons: A Novel of the Great War by Greg Hall
$10.00 NZD
$32.00 (68% off)
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
In early 1914 Frank Wilson and his two close friends, Tom Davis and Robert Sutherland, are growing up in Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand. The coming war in Europe arouses the hopes and dreams of a generation of young men. The pressure becomes irresistible and one by one the boys become soldier ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193 ...Show more