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The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS which won two Irish Book Awards. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenchev is haunted by his past -a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England, with his beloved wife Zoya, Georgy prepares to make ...Show more
The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne
29.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of h ...Show more
The Thief of Time by John Boyne
29.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. H ...Show more
This House is Haunted by John Boyne
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing ...Show more
This House is Haunted by John Boyne
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
35.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ...Show more