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Down South: In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: near fine
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not ...Show more
Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
From the bestselling author of The Girl from Munich and Suitcase of Dreams comes an unforgettable tale of love, courage and betrayal inspired by a true story Berlin, 1943 As the Allied forces edge closer, the Third Reich tightens its grip on its people. For eighteen-year-old Susanna Göttmann, this means ...Show more
The Ickabog (HB) by J. K. Rowling
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
A mythical monster, a kingdom in peril, an adventure that will test two children’s bravery to the limit. Discover a brilliantly original fairy tale about the power of hope and friendship to triumph against all odds, from one of the world’s best storytellers. The kingdom of Cornucopia was once the happie ...Show more
What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future (HB) by Oliver Jeffers
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
A spectacular new title from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers, creator of the million-copy selling, global phenomenon Here We Are! What shall we build, you and I? I'll build your future and you'll build mine. We'll build a watch to keep our time. A father and daughter set about laying the foundation ...Show more
Annabel Langbein Essential: Best Ever Meals for Busy Lives by Annabel Langbein
$65.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY OUT-OF-PRINT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN OBTAINING A COPY PLEASE USE OUR CONTACT TAB AND WE WILL NOTIFY YOU AS SOON AS STOCK BECOMES AVAILABLE In this beautiful new compendium, best-selling New Zealand cookbook author Annabel Langbein gathers more than 650 of her best-ever savoury ...Show more
Tree of Strangers by Summer Barbara
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery ‘I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.’ I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I’d never met ...Show more
The Shadow Moth (#1 A Clock of Stars) by Francesca Gibbons
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Series: A Clock of Stars
Imogen hates her mum's new boyfriend, and wants only to escape into the plays she acts out with her annoying younger sister, Marie. But when a silver moth lands on her windowsill everything changes. Following the moth through a door in a tree, Imogen finds herself in a magical kingdom . . . with her an ...Show more
The Muse by Jessie Burton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: very good
A picture hides a thousand words ...On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she has been offered a j ...Show more
Nomad by James Swallow
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Marc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line. However the evidence seems to poin ...Show more
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: very good
'A very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 bestselling author of BIG LITTLE LIES 'An intelligent, life-affirming, emotionally charged story' Prima Laurie Frankel's THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS is the 'fascinating story of a ...Show more
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and quick-witted, her charm was legendary and with her ...Show more
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever ...Show more
