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Sam Eastland- Eye Of The Red Tsar
It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted. Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead.
Trade pb,2010,334 pgs.
ISBN- 9780571245345
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Lian Hearn- Brilliance Of The Moon
Book 3 of the Otori,set in mythical ancient Japan.
Softcover,399 pgs.
ISBN- 0733615678
Condition- B
Price: NZ $6.00
Banquo's Son- T.K.Roxborogh
An epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of Scotland after Macbeth.
Trade pb,2009,318 pgs.
ISBN- 9780143202493
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Song Yet Sung- James McBride
The story of a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.
Trade pb,2008,359 pgs.
ISBN- 9780340976272
Condition-C
Price: NZ $10.00
Anthony & Cleopatra- Colleen McCullough
The epic story of two of the world's most famous lovers.
Hardback with dj,2007,631 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741800517
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Enchantress Of Florence- Salman Rushdie
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather...
Trade pb,2008,356 pgs.
ISBN- 9780224082433
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Imperium- Robert Harris
Inside the violent treacherous world of Roman politics.
Trade pb,2006,403 pgs.
ISBN- 0091801257
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Innocent- Posie Graeme-Evans
The year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. Meanwhile, deep in the forests of western England, a baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. Her name is Anne...
Trade pb,2002,404 pgs.
ISBN- 0731811208
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Exiled- Posie Graeme-Evans
Anne faces the challenge of raising her child in exile. Always resourceful, she flourishes as a merchant and is able to support her household. But the local businessmen aren't pleased about competing with a woman and her foes are multiplying around her.
Trade pb,2003,390 pgs.
ISBN- 0731811216
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Three Day Road- Joseph Boyden
Two Canadian Indian friends, Xavier and Elijah leave their pristine northern country to end up in the horrific trenches of World War I.
Trade pb,2005,354 pgs.
ISBN- 0297848593
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Nourishment- Gerard Woodward
With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother. As Tory works at the local gelatine factory - doing her bit for the war effort ...
Trade pb,9780330519946
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Paris Wife- Paula McLain
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they soon fall in with a circle of lively and volatile expatriates, including F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound. Ernest and Hadley are thrust into a life of artistic ambition, hard liquor and spur-of-the-moment dashes to Pamplona, the Riviera and the Swiss Alps
Trade pb,2010,392 pgs.
ISBN- 9781844087204
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The People's Train- Tom Keneally
The political and romantic adventures of Samsurov, a fictional character closely based on Fedor (``Artem'') Sergeyev, a Bolshevik who escaped from exile in Siberia after the crushing of the 1905 revolution in Russia and who was a political activist in Brisbane for six years.
Trade pb,2009,406 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741667431
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Notary- Catherine Jinks
"I told you," said Gaillard, upon being pressed once more for information, "all I know is that he was found by his scribe. And that his genitals were gone."
"Gone!" I exclaimed.
"Not there. Vanished."
"Somebody stole them?"
"A nun," Othon remarked, unleashing a shout of laughter...."
Trade pb,2000,561 pgs.
ISBN- 0732910250
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Pyrates- George MacDonald Fraser
A rollicking, swashbuckling, hilarious high-seas adventure.
Softcover,1996,413 pgs.
ISBN- 0006470173
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Courilof Affair- Irene Nemirovsky
In 1903 Leon M-a devout terrorist-is given the responsibility by the Revolutionary Committee of publicly 'liquidating'� Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, a notoriously brutal and cold-blooded minister.
Softcover,2008,172 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099493983
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Long Way Home- Audrey Howard
Sometimes life is the hardest journey of all...
Trade pb,2008,438 pgs.
ISBN- 9780340895405
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Master & Commander- Patrick O'Brien
The first book in the Aubrey-Maturin stories.
Softcover,2002,403 pgs.
ISBN- 9780006499152
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The House Of Special Purpose- John Boyle
A novel of the last days of the Romanovs and Imperial Russia.
Softcover,2009,493 pgs.
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Gloriana's Touch- Patricia Finney
A novel set during Elizabeth 1's fight with the Spanish Armada.
Softcover,2004,519 pgs.
ISBN- 0753818043
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Ballad Of Trenchmouth Taggart- Glenn Taylor
There's little room in this world for a moral man.
An epic tale in the tradition of Mark Twain.
Softcover,2008,311 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007339549
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Band Of Brothers- Alexander Kent
A Lieutenant Richard Boliho story.
Softcover,2005,128 pgs.
ISBN- 0099436329
Condition- B
Price: NZ $8.00
A.D.Chronicles:First Light- Bodie & Brock Thoene
Go back in time to first-century Jerusalem. It's a dark time in the world's holiest and most turbulent city. Walk with Peniel, the blind beggar who longs for rescue from his suffering. Peek into the lives of Susannah and Manaen, two lovers separated by overwhelming odds. And meet an unusual healer, who ignites a spark of controversy in the fire of hatred, deceit, and betrayal that is always burning in this ancient city. This first book in the A.D. Chronicles series will bring you face-to-face with the man called Yeshua.
Softcover,2003,438 pgs.
ISn- 9780842375078
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Last Kingdom- Bernard Cornwell
In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England—and the course of history—depended upon one man, one king. ...
Trade pb,2004,327 pgs.
ISBN- 0007182821
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
On A Highland Shore- Kathleen Givens
In an age when Vikings threaten Scottish civilisation,one woman will dare to uphold her clan's honour and claim her own exceptional destiny...
Softcover,2006,384 pgs.
ISBN- 9781416509905
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Bonesetter's Daughter- Amy Tan
The conflicts between a Chinese-American woman and her Chinese mother.
Softcover,2001,339 pgs.
ISBN- 0006550436
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
Band Of Gold- Deborah Challinor
On the goldfields of Ballarat,vows are broken- can a wounded heart forgive ?....
Trade pb,2010,319 pgs.
ISBN- 9781869506346
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Lustrum- Robert Harris
Rome 63 B.C- alliances,betrayals,cruelties and seductions- a potent mix...
Trade pb,2009,454 pgs.
ISBN- 978091801304
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Imperium- Robert Harris
Marcus Cicero- ambitious,ruthless,brilliant and on the rise in Rome- a city built on a river of filth.
Softcover,2006,480 pgs.
ISBN- 978099527664
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Zookeeper's War- Steven Conte
In Berlin, who can you trust? A story of passion and sacrifice in a city battered by war ...It is 1943 and each night in a bomb shelter beneath the Berlin Zoo an Australian woman, Vera, shelters with her German husband, Axel, the zoo's director. Together, they struggle to look after the animals...
Softcover,2007,374 pgs.
ISBN- 073228516X
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Autumn Bridge- Takashi Matsuoka
A 13th century history of the Okumichi clan resonates with an American missionary who has fled to Japan to escape a tragic past.
Softcover,2004,415 pgs.
ISBN- 186325367X
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Interpretation Of Murder- Jed Rubenfeld
Manhattan 1909- a study of New York's social divisions.
Softcover,2010,565 pgs.
ISBN- 9780755331420
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Floating Book- M.R.Lovric
Venice,1468,Sosia Simeon ,a free spirit with a predeliection for books and Venetians,is making her mark on the fabled city....
Trade pb,2003,490 pgs.
ISBN-184408003X
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Relics- Pip Vaughan-Hughes
A monk,a corpse,a sinister Templar and a terrific adventure...
Trade pb,2006,276 pgs.
ISBN- 0752868624
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Skeletons At The Feast- Chris Bohjalian
January 1945,a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives:an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich to reach the British and American lines...
Trade pb,2008,372 pgs.
ISBN- 9781847373144
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
It is 1939.Nazi Germany.
The country is holding its breath.
Death has never been busier,and will become busier still......
Softcover,2005,584 pgs.
ISBN- 9780330423304
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Figures In Silk- Vanora Bennett
Intrigue and passion at the court of Edward IV.
Softcover,2008,450 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007257829
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
Cathedral Of The Sea- Ildefonso Falcones
A serf in 14th century Spain becomes a baron as a reward for courage in battle by King Pedro...
Softcover,2007,750 pgs.
ISBN- 9780552773973
Condition- C
Price: NZ $10.00
The Hornet's Nest- Jimmy Carter
The first work of fiction by a President Of The United States- a sweeping novel of the American south and the War Of Independence.
Trade pb,2003,462 pgs.
ISBN- 0743263340
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Giovanni's Gift- Bradford Morrow
When Grant hears of the violence against his family in the Rocky Mountains, he abandons Rome and his dying marriage to try and stop it, but only finds him drawn into the darkness that surrounds the death of Giovanni, a close family friend.
Hardback with dj,1997,325 pgs.
ISBN- 067087292X
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
Sylvia- Bryce Courtenay
A story of the Children's Crusade in the year 1212.
Trade pb,2006,498 pgs.
ISBN- 9780670071227
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
The Wild Rose- Jennifer Donnelly
It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth...
Trade pb,2011,623 pgs.
ISBN- 9780732295097
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
The Devil's Queen- Jeanne Kalogridis
The passionate story of how Catherine De Medici,great-granddaughter of Lorenzo The Magnificent,grew from an unloved orphan to become France's most maligned monarch.
Trade pb,2010,470 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007252145
Condition- B
Price: NZ $12.00
The Cemetery Of Secrets- David Hewson
In the ancient burial ground of San Michele,a young woman's casket is prised open,something is wrenceh from her hands,and an extraordinary story begins....
Softcover,2009,517 pgs.
ISBN- 9780330508766
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00
The Templar Knight- Jan Guillou
Book 2 of The Crusades Trilogy.
Softcover,2009,470 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007285860
Condition-B
Price: NZ $10.00
Birth Of The Kingdon- Jan Guillou
Book 3 of The Crusades Trilogy.
Softcover,2009,498 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007285877
Condition- B
Price: NZ $10.00