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  • The Tangled Miracle

    by Bertram Brooker ...
    Series series Throwback
    A first-rate thriller from one of Canada's pioneer abstract painters.A cult leader announces a miracle will take place and she will rise to heaven. A medium prophesies the date, publicity gets to work, and all of America hums with anticipation. On the appointed day, she disappears and scientist Mortimer Hood, there to verify the miracle, must investigate how—and whether—the whole thing is a hoax, ... Read more

    $17.35 NZD

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  • The Honeyfield Bequest

    From the multi-million copy bestselling author

    by Anna Jacobs ...
    Series Book 1 - The Honeyfield Series
    1901, Wiltshire. Young Kathleen Keller is being forced into marriage with a man she despises by her cruel father. In an act of desperation, she runs away in a bid for a safer life, although one she might not have otherwise have chosen. But when tragedy strikes, Kathleen is left vulnerable and one man threatens the fragile peace she has made for herself.Meanwhile, Nathan Perry works for his father ... Read more

    $13.67 NZD

  • Village School

    The first novel in the Fairacre series

    by Miss Read ...
    Series Book 1 - Fairacre
    The very first Miss Read novel - set in a charming 1950s English countryside community, perfect nostalgia for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE or Gervase Phinn.'An affectionate, humorous and gently charming chronicle ... sometimes funny, sometimes touching, always appealing' New York TimesFairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and at the heart of the school, its headmistress, Miss ... Read more

    $14.99 NZD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Shadow on the House

    An Inspector Head Mystery

    by E. Charles Vivian ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    "Now supposing I tell you, inspector, that I did not leave a lump of explosive matter of any kind on that table?"Raymond Nevile's dye works have put the town of Westingborough on the map. Thanks to the special qualities of the water in the Idleburn river, the Nevile dyes have attained an international reputation and are a source of pride to the local area. But for Nevile himself, things are not so ... Read more

    $2.57 NZD

  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

    by Brian Moore ...
    Series series Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith.Judith Hearne, a Catholic middle-aged spinster, moves into yet another bed-sit in Belfast. A socially isolated woman of modest means, she teaches piano to a handful of students to pass the day. Her only social activity is tea with the O'Neill family, who secretly dread her weekly visits.Judith soon ... Read more

    $12.99 NZD

  • Collected Short Stories

    The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories,Means of Evil and Other Stories,The Fever Tree and Other Stories and The New Girlfriend and Other Stories

    by Ruth Rendell ...
    Four collections of some of Ruth Rendell's greatest original crime thrillers. ... Read more

    $14.99 NZD

  • The New Moon With the Old

    by Dodie Smith ...
    From the author of I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, an unusual adventure in which humour and more than a touch of strangeness are inextricably blended.When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with ... Read more

    $16.99 NZD

  • The Town in Bloom

    by Dodie Smith ...
    A determined young Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on a stage career - this tale from the author of I Capture the Castle is told with the candour and authenticity that derives from Dodie Smith's own experience of the theatre world.Mouse never did fully suit her nickname. Tiny she may have been, but timid never. After less than twenty-four hours in London she had bluffed her way into an ... Read more

    $13.99 NZD

  • Paradise Postponed

    by John Mortimer ...
    Paradise Postponed - John Mortimer's classic novel, now part of the Penguin Decades seriesPenguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ... Read more

    $17.99 NZD

  • Nothing to Report

    by Carola Oman ...
    “I have told Rose that there will be a chauffeur for dinner,” she ended, frowning slightly at the cannibalistic sound of her sentence.Unmarried and nicknamed “Button” by her friends, Mary Morrison is a (very mildly) distressed gentlewoman. She no longer lives in her family home, but remains at the very centre of village life, surrounded by friends including carefree, irresponsible Catha, Lady ... Read more

    Was $8.99 NZD Now $7.99 NZD

  • Elizabeth Bowen: short stories

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    by Elizabeth Bowen ...
    Three classic short stories by the novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). 'So Much Depends', 'The Easter Egg Party' and 'The Needlecase.' Country house fiction. ... Read more

    $9.48 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Stories

    by Ruth Rendell ...
    Three classic Ruth Rendell stories: Means of Evil, The Fallen Curtain and The Fever Tree.Ruth Rendell is unequalled in her ability to weave stories that challenge our preconceptions and prejudices. From Wexford and Burden's investigation of a wife's apparent suicide, with all the evidence pointing to the husband in Means of Evil to the unsettling psychology behind a man's friendship with a boy in ... Read more

    $14.99 NZD