{"title":"Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"stones-from-the-river-by-ursula-hegi-5036i","title":"Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother's Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times-\"epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision\" (Los Angeles Times).  Trudi Montag is a Zwerg-a dwarf-short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share-from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar.  Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.  Editorial Reviews  Michael Dorris Los Angeles Times What a novel is supposed to be: epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a definging and mesmerizing vision...It is in a word, remarkable.  Suzanne Ruta The New York Times Book Review Rich and lively...This moving, elegiac novel commands our compassion and respect for the wisdom and courage to be found in unlikely places, in unlikely times. - From the Publisher  Ursula Hegi draws parallels between groups of outsiders in this dramatic audiobook set in Germany. Trudi Montag, the town librarian, feels dissociated from society because she is a dwarf. In her role as librarian, Trudi meticulously archives secrets, stories, and history, all of which become her source of power when the townspeople allow Jews to be mistreated during World War II.   - bn.com  A dwarf woman struggles to find acceptance in her small German town in this novel spanning both world wars.  - Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly  At the beginning of World War I, Trudi Montag, a dwarf, is born to an unstable mother and a gentle father in a small Rheinish town. Through the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich into the era following World War II she first struggles with--and later draws strength and wisdom from--her inability to fit into a conformist and repressive society. As the town's librarian and historian, Trudi keeps track of many secrets, revealing the universality of her experience. While Hegi's (Floating in My Mother's Palm , LJ 5\/15\/90) treatment of history and politics is engaging, her novel's appeal lies in the humanity of its characters. Particularly strong is her portrayal of, and insight into, the community of women and children as they react to changing conditions in the town. A sensitive and rewarding book.-- Michael T. O'Pecko, Towson State Univ., Md.  - Library Journal  Edwards-Fukei's lilting German-accented English is the redeeming feature of this interminable unabridged version of Hegi's novel about a small German town in the decades following WWI. Taking its cue from THE TIN DRUM, Hegi's novel presents twentieth-century German history through the eyes of a dwarf, Trude, whose differences are the focus for viewing all those who don't belong in a society where belonging is everything. The novel's pace is slow, the decades seeming to drift by on the clock of real time. Hegi's depictions of small-town German life are detailed and meticulous and quite fine, but are best experienced in abridged form. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine - FEB\/MAR 02 - AudioFile\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41793221230666,"sku":"5036i","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5036i_524b24d0-d986-4f7d-b31e-0f4d511b2835.jpg?v=1771559742"},{"product_id":"a-breath-of-snow-and-ashes-by-diana-gabaldon-1114am","title":"A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41793521877066,"sku":"1114am","price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1114am_a378ed14-9451-4dab-8466-a3a794574119.jpg?v=1769551837"},{"product_id":"eleven-hours-by-paullina-simons-1182a","title":"Eleven Hours by Paullina Simons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41793522270282,"sku":"6599ah","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6599ah.jpg?v=1777610451"},{"product_id":"mister-pip-by-lloyd-jones-56s","title":"Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn inventive and original novel from this multi-award-winning author. Lloyd Jones' new novel is set mainly in a small village on Bougainville, a country torn apart by civil war. Mathilda attends the school set up by Mr Watts, the only white man on the island. By his own admission he's not much of a teacher and proceeds to educate the children by reading them Great Expectations. Mathilda falls in love with the novel, strongly identifying with Pip. The promise of the next chapter is what keeps her going; Pip's story protects her from the horror of what is happening around her - helicopters menacing the skies above the village and rebel raids on the ground. When the rebels visit the village searching for any remaining men to join their cause, they discover the name Pip written in the sand and instigate a search for him. When Pip can't be found the soldiers destroy the book. Mr Watts then encourages the children to retell the story from their memories. Then when the rebels invade the village, the teacher tells them a story which lasts seven nights, about a boy named Pip, and a convict...Years later, when she has fled the island for Australia, Matilda reaches for a copy of Great Expectations in the school library and realises that Mr Watts was reading them his own version of the text, another 'invention' of the original. Later she pursues Mr Watts's memory to Wellington, New Zealand, and that of Dickens and Pip to London and Gravesend. Jones frames Matilda's story with Pip's story and so creates a Pacific Great Expectations. Mister Pip explores notions of storytelling, and the role of imagination in inventing the self. Lloyd Jones always surprises, never stands still. This is inspired storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795843817546,"sku":"56s","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/56s_e191f842-c530-4b86-a456-1dd5c0471c34.jpg?v=1776920690"},{"product_id":"angels-and-demons-by-dan-brown-107p","title":"Angels and Demons by Dan Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795844276298,"sku":"107p","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/107p.jpg?v=1781498951"},{"product_id":"the-shipping-news-a-novel-by-proulx-annie-319ac","title":"The shipping News : A Novel by E. Annie Proulx","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters - Bunny and Sunshine - in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. 'The Shipping News' is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795844472906,"sku":"319ac","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/319ac.jpg?v=1782190225"},{"product_id":"mitla-pass-by-leon-uris-5i","title":"Mitla Pass by Leon Uris","description":"\u003cp\u003e From the Russian pogroms of the early 1900s to Israel's Sinai War in 1956, Mitla Pass is an extraordinary epic novel of love and war, violence and passion, and man's eternal quest for freedom, from the bestselling author of Battle Cry, The Haj and Mila 18.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795844964426,"sku":"5i","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5i.jpg?v=1765831719"},{"product_id":"five-quarters-of-the-orange-by-joanne-harris-623j","title":"Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeyond The Main Street Of Les Laveuses Runs The Loire, Smooth And Brown As A Sunning Snake - But Hiding A Deadly Undertow Beneath Its Moving Surface. This Is Where Framboise, A Secretive Widow Named After A Raspberry Liqueur, Plies Her Culinary Trade At The Cr√™perie - And Lets Memory Play Strange Games.Into This World Comes The Threat Of Revelation As Framboise S Nephew A Profiteering Parisian Attempts To Exploit The Growing Success Of The Country Recipes She Has Inherited From Her Mother, A Woman Remembered With Contempt By The Villagers Of Les Laveuses. As The Spilt Blood Of A Tragic Wartime Childhood Flows Again, Exposure Beckons For Framboise, The Widow With An Invented Past.Joanne Harris Has Looked Behind The Drawn Shutters Of Occupied France To Illuminate The Pain, Delight And Loss Of A Life Changed For Ever By The Uncertainties And Betrayals Of War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795845554250,"sku":"623j","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/623j_45a34cb0-81b7-4faa-8caf-03c55f5f7a37.jpg?v=1764148022"},{"product_id":"the-pilots-wife-by-anita-shreve-321j","title":"The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality? From the bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF WATER, this enormously gripping and powerfully wrought novel asks the questions we all have about ourselves and definitively places Anita Shreve among the ranks of the best novelists writing today. Being\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795846602826,"sku":"321j","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/321j_ed9163cd-a0f5-47b6-9268-b32a0f4fda73.jpg?v=1771472570"},{"product_id":"jessica-by-bryce-courtenay-44d","title":"Jessica by Bryce Courtenay","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A superb storyteller ... it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenay's talents' - The Times JESSICA is based on the real life of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the conventions of her time. She had a stubborn streak and the courage to act out her convictions ... in spite of the consequences. This compelling, sweeping story is her personal fight for justice against enormous odds, and a testimony to the power of the human spirit to triumph over adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795847651402,"sku":"44d","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/44d.jpg?v=1781499180"},{"product_id":"the-other-boleyn-girl-by-philippa-gregory-339o","title":"The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory","description":"\u003cp\u003eMODERN \u0026amp; CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court, during the years of Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. 1521. Henry VIII rules over a fashionable court alive with pageant and celebration, the lack of a son his only threat. When young Mary Boleyn arrives at court, she becomes his new mistress, an unwitting pawn in the ambitions of the powerful Boleyn and Howard families. As Henry's interest begins to wane, the Boleyns scheme to put forward Mary's sister, Anne. Yet Anne Boleyn, newly returned from the French court, won't agree to be Henry's mistress - only his wife. Pitting the king's desperation for an heir against the advice of his powerful advisors, Wolsey and Cromwell, what follows will change the course of a country's history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795848339530,"sku":"339o","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/339o_769271b9-6ad5-452b-a926-d2b571caf948.jpg?v=1777610408"},{"product_id":"the-girl-who-played-with-fire-by-stieg-larsson-369f","title":"The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795848503370,"sku":"369f","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/369f.jpg?v=1779073864"},{"product_id":"the-vintners-luck-by-elizabeth-knox-523g","title":"The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox","description":"\u003cp\u003e A 19th century French winemaker is visited by a male angel and falls in love. The angel visits him once a year and the friendship leads to a triangle involving the winemaker's wife. By a New Zealand writer  On cover: A novel  Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 1999: Deutz Medal for fiction  Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 1999: Readers' choice  Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 1999: 1) Deutz Medal for Fiction. 2) Readers' Choice Award\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795848896586,"sku":"523g","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/523g_a0bd0957-b117-4690-ae53-e6988415d4af.jpg?v=1778975567"},{"product_id":"billies-kiss-by-elizabeth-knox-532m","title":"Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorical novel set in the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other towards the Protestant north and Scandinavia. The novel combines an Edwardian mystery with a love story. Elizabeth Knox won the Deutz Medal for Fiction in the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book awards for The Vintner's Luck.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795848929354,"sku":"532m","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/532m_1_dcd48edf-5972-44a4-b267-c2e037f29a6a.jpg?v=1764148166"},{"product_id":"the-spin-by-anonymous-649q","title":"The Spin by Anonymous","description":"\u003cp\u003eA novel set in the world of New Zealand politics. The title refers to the role of Ben Bradshaw, a spin doctor in the Beehive. The many characters of the novel include politicians, journalists, and party officials, and the action centers on a general election and the fate of the government.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795849257034,"sku":"649q","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/649q.jpg?v=1776835271"},{"product_id":"travelling-an-entertainment-by-bob-jones-399j","title":"Travelling : an entertainment by Bob Jones","description":"\u003cp\u003eA montage of the trials and tribulations, the hassles and joys of the principal aspects of touring abroad\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795853910090,"sku":"399j","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/399j_7a1ab45d-d2ce-42af-a6b5-5f0fe6625b70.jpg?v=1765705501"},{"product_id":"the-no-1-ladies-detective-agency-by-alexander-mccall-smith-763a","title":"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith","description":"","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795854630986,"sku":"763a","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/763a_85ef9bfc-a6e3-4206-b040-9f11ddc83320.jpg?v=1768450102"},{"product_id":"daddys-girls-by-tasmina-perry-778v","title":"Daddy's Girls by Tasmina Perry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795854762058,"sku":"778v","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/778v_ef3e50d3-efbe-4858-aa2e-b53ce5691c85.jpg?v=1764148328"},{"product_id":"the-girl-in-times-square-by-paullina-simons-2234w","title":"The Girl in Times Square by Paullina Simons","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Tully, The Bronze Horseman and Tatiana and Alexander, comes a story as emotionally involving and broad in sweep as only Paullina Simons can tell. What if everything you believed about your life was a lie? Meet Lily Quinn. She is broke, struggling to finish college, pay her rent, find love. Adrift in bustling New York City, the most interesting things in Lily's life happen to the people around her. But Lily loves her aimless life ...until her best friend and roommate Amy disappears. That's when Spencer Patrick O'Malley, a cynical, past his prime NYPD detective with demons of his own, enters Lily's world. And a sudden financial windfall which should bring Lily joy instead becomes an ominous portent of the dark forces gathering around her. But fate isn't finished with Lily. She finds herself fighting for her life as Spencer's search for the missing Amy intensifies, leading Lily to question everything she knew about her friend and family. Startling revelations about the people she loves force her to confront truths that will leave her changed forever. From a master storyteller comes a new heart-wrenching, magnificent and unputdownable novel. This is the odyssey of two young women, Lily and Amy, roommates and friends on the verge of the rest of their lives.  Reviews  Praise for Tatiana and Alexander 'This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented and dashing hero, a heart-stopping love affair that nourishes its two protagonists even when they are separated and lost, a long and bitter military campaign, plus personal excavations into the past. It also has -- thank goodness -- a welcome sense of humour and discernable characters rather than ciphers.' Victoria Moore, Daily Mail Praise for Tully 'Pick up this book and prepare to have your emotions wrung so completely you'll be sobbing your heart out one minute and laughing through your tears the next... Read it and weep -- literally' Company Praise for The Bronze Horseman Barry Foreshaw, amazon.co.uk 'Pulling off the passionate love story embedded in a truly epic narrative is a difficult thing to do. Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind remains the blueprint for the genre ... it's quickly apparent that the Russian-born author Paullina Simons has the measure of this kind of epic romantic saga. The power of her descriptive writing, the vividness of the historical detail and, most of all, the strength of her central characters mark out her novel as a considerable achievement.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795856695370,"sku":"2234w","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2234w_93f8c035-1096-4389-a670-f09fca070217.jpg?v=1765836453"},{"product_id":"an-equal-music-by-vikram-seth-114h","title":"An Equal Music by Vikram Seth","description":"\u003cp\u003eViolinist Michael Holme is overwhelmed by memories of Julia McNicholl, a pianist whose beauty was as mesmerizing as her musical genius, and whom Michael loved with an intensity he never found again. Years after parting, Michael is still in love with Julia. After a chance meeting, he persuades Julia to join his quartet on its tour of Vienna. Although Julia is now happily married and the mother of two children, and is reluctant to lead a double life, they once again become lovers. But circumstances will doom their love, for while Julia still performs publicly, she's losing her hearing; her reunion with Michael is an idyll that can't last\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795858858058,"sku":"114h","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/114h_1_72bac8c5-74b8-411b-b6bd-c05080f0a13f.jpg?v=1764148450"},{"product_id":"fifty-shades-of-grey-by-e-l-james-256h","title":"Fifty Shades Of Grey by E. L. James","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a New Zealand classification of Fifty Shades Of Grey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795859939402,"sku":"256h","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/256h_93ff034f-b3f2-4da9-bf50-792db46fdedf.jpg?v=1777869827"},{"product_id":"an-absolute-scandal-by-penny-vincenzi-347y","title":"An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn inside view of the greed and social power plays behind the closed doors of upper-crust society, An Absolute Scandal looks at a world where money isn't everything . . . sometimes, it's the only thing. And when the money disappears in the thick of a financial crisis, the real story begins.For Nigel Cowper, this means the destruction of his family business; his wife, Lucinda, is willing to do everything she can to help him-except give up her irresistible lover. The powerful, charismatic banker Simon Beaumont and his equally successful wife Elizabeth lose everything they've worked so hard to acquire; but the ultimate tragedy is something that neither one could have anticipated. Yet the well-to-do are not the only ones whose lives are upended: a self-sufficient widow, a single mother, and a schoolmaster find that their lives are also turned upside down in this deliciously readable tale. --This text refers to the Audible Audio Edition edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795860594762,"sku":"347y","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/347y_1_bbb24e1a-5207-4976-af72-8deefa8897c3.jpg?v=1764148481"},{"product_id":"the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-by-stieg-larsson-369a","title":"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson","description":"\u003cp\u003eForty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795861086282,"sku":"369a","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/369a.jpg?v=1779938883"},{"product_id":"chocolat-by-joanne-harris-743f","title":"Chocolat by Joanne Harris","description":"\u003cp\u003eTry me...Test me...Taste me. When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as instruments of murder. Suddenly, Vianne's shop-cum-cafe means that there is somewhere for secrets to be whispered, grievances to be aired, dreams to be tested. But Vianne's plans for an Easter Chocolate Festival divide the whole community in a conflict that escalates into a 'Church not Chocolate' battle. As mouths water in anticipation, can the solemnity of the Church compare with the pagan passion of a chocolate eclair? For the first time, here is a novel in which chocolate enjoys its true importance, emerging as a moral issue, as an agent of transformation - as well as a pleasure bordering on obsession. Rich, clever and mischievous, this is a triumphant read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795862790218,"sku":"743f","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/743f_556b83aa-1b66-44b3-a873-4ce213e038ea.jpg?v=1765282457"},{"product_id":"bridget-joness-diary-a-novel-by-helen-fielding-746j","title":"Bridget Jones's diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding","description":"\u003cp\u003eBridget Jones takes readers on a tour of a hilarious year-in-the-life of a confused thirty-something singleton who would have all the answers if she could just lose seven pounds, stop smoking, and attain inner poise\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795862822986,"sku":"746j","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/746j.jpg?v=1770090868"},{"product_id":"a-painted-house-by-john-grisham-2046r","title":"A Painted House by John Grisham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795864133706,"sku":"2046r","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2046r_45514b23-02f5-4b45-90ad-85c8429803d3.jpg?v=1764148600"},{"product_id":"the-lost-symbol-by-dan-brown-2108a","title":"The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling -- a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object -- artfully encoded with five symbols -- is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon -- a prominent Mason and philanthropist -- is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations -- all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels \u0026amp; Demons, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readerswith an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795864461386,"sku":"2108a","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2108a.jpg?v=1778820435"},{"product_id":"gridlock-by-ben-elton-2152ac","title":"Gridlock by Ben Elton","description":"\u003cp\u003eGridlock occurs when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom, oil and steel; chocked on carbon monoxide; and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this? Deborah and Geoffrey know, but they have transport problems of their own, and anyway, whoever it was that murdered, the city can just as easily murder them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795864494154,"sku":"2152ac","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2152ac.jpg?v=1779953504"},{"product_id":"four-fires-by-bryce-courtenay-1363b","title":"Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title of this novel refers to the four fires of passion, religion, warfare and fire itself, which the author considers have moulded the Australian people more than any others. This shaping of the Australian national character is explored through the story of a small-town family, the Maloneys. They are a fifth-generation Australian family of Irish Catholic descent who are struggling to reach the first rung of the social ladder. There is a strong mother, a father broken by war, three boys and two girls, one of whom has an illegitimate daughter. Each of their lives is changed forever by the four fires. Includes author's note, and maps. Author's first novel, 'The Power of One', has sold around three million copies worldwide, and is the largest-selling book by a living Australian author within Australia. A number of his other books have won the APA Who Weekly Reader's Choice Award: 'Tommo and Hawk' (in 1998), 'Jessica' (both 1999 and 2000), and 'Smoky Joe's Cafe' (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795864723530,"sku":"1363b","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1363b_1953a6ba-e060-4ace-88c9-0c85b0b84a75.jpg?v=1776660796"},{"product_id":"april-fools-day-by-bryce-courtenay-1369g","title":"April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe internationally acclaimed author of The Power of One tells his most powerful and passionate story yet--the true story of his son's life and death from AIDS at the age of 25. Bryce Courtenay has left a lasting memoir to his son, one which thousands have already embraced.--Vancouver Sun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795864756298,"sku":"1369g","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1369g.jpg?v=1765633269"},{"product_id":"eagle-in-the-sky-by-wilbur-a-smith-3207u","title":"Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur A. Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.'   Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country's war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795865280586,"sku":"3207u","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3207u.jpg?v=1765870196"},{"product_id":"golden-fox-by-wilbur-a-smith-3207v","title":"Golden Fox by Wilbur A. Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe felt Ramn come awake and spring from the bed, naked and lithe as a jungle cat. She heard the metallic snicker of a firearm as he snatched the pistol from the holster. In the darkness a yellow flower of gun-flamed bloomed, and a single bullet whiplashed across twenty yards of open ground... In the searing heat of a divided Africa two decades of bitter dynastic conflict explode with terrifying ferocity. To Gary and Sean Courtney it is a struggle to the end; brother pitted against brother as they are dragged unwittingly into the lair of an international terrorist. Only Isabella Courtney stands between them and the mutual destruction they have willed for so long. Beautiful, headstrong Isabella; the link to 'Golden Fox' - a man whose alias hides a sinister and deadly secret... Traversing a vast panorama, from the heart of London society to the grandeur of Spain, from parched Ethiopia to war-torn Angola and on to the blazing hunting grounds of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Golden Fox is masterful storytelling from the arena of war; an adventure of stirring, irresistible intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795865346122,"sku":"3207v","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3207v.jpg?v=1765960045"},{"product_id":"the-horse-whisperer-by-nicholas-evans-107d","title":"The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans","description":"\u003cp\u003eTeenage Grace and her horse, Pilgrim, are both horribly injured by a speeding truck - Pilgrim is so traumatized that it seems kinder to put him down but Grace's mother feels that if the horse recovers, so, too, will her daughter - She seeks the aid of a whisperer who is said to have the gift of healing horses - Now released as a film; This title is also available as a film  Originally published: London: Bantam, 1995\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795866689610,"sku":"107d","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/107d_54b4cf6a-88c0-4769-a783-b480350637a7.jpg?v=1765925009"},{"product_id":"the-summons-by-john-grisham-109az","title":"The Summons by John Grisham","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a very good mystery novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795866820682,"sku":"6626al","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6626al_bd1c7ad1-da6b-4e4b-925c-cac320795e10.jpg?v=1778130148"},{"product_id":"the-fourth-estate-by-jeffrey-archer-213t","title":"The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Archer's new novel tells the story of 2 of the most extraordinary men of our time. From very different backgrounds, both men are prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the biggest media empire in the world  Originally published: 1996\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795867476042,"sku":"213t","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/213t_8b3620bb-6149-4d7e-bc4c-c349a11b6dc3.jpg?v=1780453999"},{"product_id":"daughters-of-messene-by-maggie-rainey-smith-760a","title":"Daughters of Messene by Maggie Rainey-Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour history, Artemis, is full of female warriors. Artemis has the name of a goddess, but she has trouble living up to it. Instead she usually just runs away. She's running now ... away from the married man she's been seeing, and the Greek community in New Zealand who think they know what's best, and into the arms of family in the Peloponnese that she's never met. She carries her mother's ashes and an ipod with recordings, which bit by bit tell the shocking story of what happened to Artemis' grandmother during the Greek Civil War. Daughters of Messene is a story of a family of women - those who stayed in that broken but beautiful country, one who went to the ends of the earth to escape what she'd seen, and another who returned not knowing what it was she was looking for. A powerful third novel by Maggie Rainey-Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795870195786,"sku":"760a","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/760a_1_0de1c226-50b3-452c-81e7-862f8de7ee24.jpg?v=1764148903"},{"product_id":"her-fearful-symmetry-by-audrey-niffenegger-1252g","title":"Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795871965258,"sku":"1252g","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1252g_9c7d4089-df36-473e-87a3-e56da0b4bf22.jpg?v=1778734150"},{"product_id":"a-suitable-boy-by-vikram-seth-1266o","title":"A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth","description":"\u003cp\u003eVikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, a tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great General Election and the chance to map its own destiny.   'A Suitable Boy may prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of this century - perhaps even the book to restore the serious reading public's faith in the contemporary novel ... You should make time for it. It will keep you company for the rest of your life' Daniel Johnson, The Times  Editorial Reviews  About the Author Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales. Reader biographies: Andrew Sachs (Manuel in Fawlty Towers) has performed widely in stage, film and television. He won Best Actor in the Sony Radio Awards 1989 and was Performer of the Year, Spoken Word Awards 1999. Fiona Shaw has starred on stage in Medea and The Prime of Miss Jean Brody among many others. Television roles range from Persuasion to Gormenghast. Feature films include My Left Foot, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795872030794,"sku":"1266o","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1266o_c8cd4194-66a6-4a7c-bcd1-3bb81c5a4c60.jpg?v=1764148994"},{"product_id":"the-luminaries-by-eleanor-catton-2015a","title":"The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton","description":"\u003cp\u003e'There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease - they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.' n nIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous sum of money has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky. n nFrom the author of the award-winning global phenomenon The Rehearsal comes a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795872063562,"sku":"2015a","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2015a_eceb5882-a897-4585-a0bf-c2aadc09b09c.jpg?v=1765961296"},{"product_id":"rachels-holiday-by-marian-keyes-1379x","title":"Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes","description":"\u003cp\u003eRACHEL'S HOLIDAY, Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment.   Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She's outraged. Surely she's not thin enough to be an addict? Heartsick and Luke-sick, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a Man with a Past. A man who might be more trouble than he's worth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795872587850,"sku":"1379x","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1379x_edce30bb-35db-4fa9-9e15-6dcc70132c4a.jpg?v=1765574066"},{"product_id":"an-indecent-obsession-by-colleen-mccullough-3197n","title":"An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dutiful and disciplined Sister Honour Langtry has sole charge of Ward X of a military hospital in the Pacific, where she cares for soldiers who have gone 'troppo' or are battle fatigued. War with Japan has only been over a few days when into this intense, confined world comes a new patient, Sergeant Michael Wilson. Immediately, his arrival transforms Ward X into a pressure cooker of emotion leading inexorably to tragedy for Sister Honour Langtry, as she is torn between her duty to all her patients - and her love for one of them...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795875012682,"sku":"3197n","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3197n.jpg?v=1768880812"},{"product_id":"smoky-joes-cafe-by-bryce-courtenay-43ac","title":"Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThommo returns from Vietnam to an Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all kinds of physical and mental problems, and thinks it must only be him until he finds he is not alone. Ten mates, all who remain of his platoon who fought and died in the Battle of Long Tan, are affected the same way. Now Thommo and his mates are eleven angry men out for revenge. They rope in an ex-Viet Cong with 'special skills' and his own secret agenda. They're the 'Dirty Dozen', just like the movie. Only it's real life, and they're so screwed up they couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag. That is, until a woman of character steps in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795876290634,"sku":"6629f","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6629f_a9edae6d-c995-4e63-9d9e-409c685b3a89.jpg?v=1778130106"},{"product_id":"seven-up-by-janet-evanovich-43ai","title":"Seven Up by Janet Evanovich","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Foreword: This book is for all of us, because we all hunger to be more, to have more and to impact more. Paul J. Meyer has made it his life work to help people reach their full potential. That means a lot but what speaks even louder are the millions of voices who have been positively impacted by this man. Beginning at an early age, Paul began uncovering the gifts of life that we all are entitled to. He has come to see that you can lay claim to virtually anything we wish. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, says an ancient writer. Inside this book, you will find truths that will challenge you to reach higher than ever before. You will be motivated. You will be encouraged. You will be given a lot. And you will see that you too have a fortune to share.In 1960, after an impressively successful insurance career, Paul took what he learned as a master salesman, manager, leader and motivator of others and began a corporation dedicated to motivating people to their full potential. That flagship company has grown into numerous organizations worldwide that have almost three billion dollars in combined sales. Other areas of interest have also developed into businesses owned by Meyer and his family, including publishing, education, printing, finance, legal insurance, antique cars, auto racing, aviation, manufacturing, real estate and much more. His entrepreneurial expertise has propelled him and his family to investments in numerous companies and ownership of more than forty corporations throughout the world.As Pauls friend for more than 50 years, I have observed that the greatest contributing factor to his long-standing success is his attitude. He is telling it like it is in this book. His positive attitude, combined with his success habits and infinite thirst for knowledge, sets him apart from the typical businessperson. These traits have not only sustained him through the dramatic ups and downs frequently characterizing the risks and rewards of business ownership but they have also catapulted him to phenomenal success.Paul J. Meyers philosophy and attitudes have literally helped millions of people reach more of their full potential. The rewards earned by his achievements have been used by Meyer to help even more people. He accepts the abundance and responsibilities with the attitude of that of a steward. He views the riches of life as a trust and himself as the trustee. The beneficiaries of his inheritance are those who have used his writings to find purpose and success in their own lives. In addition, countless beneficiaries include individuals helped by one of the many foundations he and his family have established. As you read, you will see how Pauls conscious choice to feed his mind diligently and carefully with only the richest, most positive ideas available has created his indomitable attitude and his incredible fortune. And what he has gained, he generously shares with you.Inside this treasure book are valuable seeds of success. Plant these seeds in your own mind and soul and you will reap the happiness and success your Creator has designed you for when you seek it and work for it. Its yours, if you want it.Dr. W.M. Bill HinsonVice Chairman of Haggai Institute\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795876388938,"sku":"43ai","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/43ai_628471fd-688f-463d-bbb3-9eed459b4b73.jpg?v=1765486363"},{"product_id":"girls-in-pants-the-third-summer-of-the-sisterhood-by-ann-brashares-108v","title":"Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pants first came to us at the perfect moment - when we were heading our separate ways for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again. You see, we don't wear the Pants year-round. We let them rest so they are extra powerful when summer comes. Now we're facing our last summer together. In September we go to college. And it's not like one of those TV shows where all of us magically turn up at the same college. We're going to four different colleges in four different cities. So this is really, really big. Our shared childhood is ending. We're headed off to start our real lives. Tomorrow night we'll launch the Pants on their third summer voyage. Tomorrow begins the time of our lives. It's when we'll need our Pants the most\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795877503050,"sku":"108v","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/108v_841763a8-4e7e-445c-af3b-2fc32a28188b.jpg?v=1764149232"},{"product_id":"solomons-song-by-bryce-courtenay-258t","title":"Solomon's song by Bryce Courtenay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of two families - branches of the Solomons - transported to an alien land, both of whom eventually grow rich and powerful but who, through three generations, never for one moment relinquish their hatred for each other. It is also the story of our country from the beginning until we came of age as a nation. I have learned a great deal about Australia and those things which concern us as a people and make us, in many ways, who we are today. To write this book, I visited Gallipoli and came away deeply saddened by the terrible waste of our young blood. We would never be quite the same again. It has been a grand adventure and I hope that you will find Solomon's Song a good and powerful story. No writer can possibly hope for more. Bryce Courtenay  'Rest in peace Ikey Solomon and thank you, Bryce Courtenay, for concluding your absorbing trilogy on such a stirring note.' Canberra Times  'Courtenay superbly manages to put the reader in the thick of the bloody battles that took so many young lives in Turkey ... Hard to put down.' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795879764042,"sku":"258t","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/258t.jpg?v=1778820516"},{"product_id":"captain-corellis-mandolin-by-louis-de-bernieres-290ah","title":"Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795879960650,"sku":"290ah","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/290ah_a89953f4-304d-4f4a-b831-172e2d9735d1.jpg?v=1781585444"},{"product_id":"the-other-side-of-the-story-by-marian-keyes-302ab","title":"The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes","description":"\u003cp\u003eJojo Harvey is a literary agent whose star is on the rise. In love with both her married boss and her burgeoning career, not much distracts her. Until she finds herself representing two women who used to be best friends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795880616010,"sku":"302ab","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/302ab.jpg?v=1774746813"},{"product_id":"man-and-boy-by-tony-parsons-339aa","title":"Man and Boy by Tony Parsons","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way. Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. It is very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795880845386,"sku":"339aa","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/339aa.jpg?v=1781498956"},{"product_id":"four-fires-by-bryce-courtenay-515s","title":"Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe four fires in this story are passion, religion, warfare and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame of all, it is these four that have moulded us most as Australian people. The four fires give us our sense of place and, for better or for worse, shape our national character.  Editorial Reviews  About the Author Bryce Courtenay, bestselling Australian author, wrote his first book, The Power of One, at the age of fifty-five. This became the largest-selling book by a living Australian author within Australia, with over half a million copies sold locally. Having lived in Sydney for forty years, Bryce is a patriotic Australian, who is passionate about Australia becoming a truly great nation in the 21st century. Committed to the cause of literacy and the importance of motivating young people to read, he is actively involved with literacy programs in primary schools Australia-wide. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.  From AudioFile An Australian family of drunks and garbage collectors surprises itself and the community with an abundance of grace, intelligence, and courage. Mole Maloney's first-person narrative spans the years from WWII to the Vietnam War. Humphrey Bower, speaking as Mole, delivers every possible nuance and emotion of his character's story, and shows a startling aptitude for other dialects as well. Close family friends and enemies include surviving Polish Jews, an East Indian healer, an Irish Catholic priest, Japanese prison camp soldiers, and many others. All of them, young and old, male and female, spring to vivid life in Bower's versatile voice. Narrative passages and dialogue elicit tears and laughter by turns, without a minute of boredom in the 30-hour production. R.P.L. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award   AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright   AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795881467978,"sku":"515s","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/515s.jpg?v=1779680755"},{"product_id":"the-testament-by-john-grisham-109b","title":"The Testament by John Grisham","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn aging billionaire, a burned-out lawyer and a young woman who works as a missionary in Brazil are brought together by a startling secret\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41795881893962,"sku":"109b","price":5.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/109b_8843bcbe-8a39-4a35-ae0e-9bc4cabd7d6c.jpg?v=1765623389"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/collections\/fiction.oembed?page=360","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}