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A Country Road, a Tree by Jo Baker
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction-General
Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of marching Nazi soldiers along the Champs-Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes a last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. As war takes hold, he will put his own life and that of ...Show more
Adopted - Loss, Love, Family and Reunion by Brigitta Baker; Jo Willis
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction
To not know your family story is a huge loss of your sense of self. It has the potential to undermine your wellbeing and your relationships across a lifetime. Adopted is the powerful and honest account of two of the thousands of children adopted during the era of closed adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand, ...Show more
Get out of my Tent by Jo Gliddon-Baker
17.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Archie loves camping, he loves the fresh air. The sounds in the night, the wind in his hair. The warmth of the fire, the lovely smoke scent. But more than all that, Archie just loves his tent. When everyone else thinks that Archie's little tent looks more inviting than their own and they begin to pile i ...Show more
Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice The Servant's Story by Jo Baker
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill ...Show more
Longbourn: The unputdownable Richard and Judy pick by Jo Baker
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
"'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.'It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will b ...Show more
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A dark, thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of LONGBOURN- a work of riveting suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world - or in the pages of a book - when the stakes are dangerously high. What if you realised the subject your student is studying is you? When a young writ ...Show more
The Midnight News by Jo Baker
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information, ...Show more
The Picture Book by Jo Baker
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is a family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a champion cyclist who survives the D-Day Landings on a military ...Show more
The Picture Book by Jo Baker
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots. First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his son Billy, a champion cyclist who survives the D-Day Landings on ...Show more
The Telling by Jo Baker
29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house cont ...Show more
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