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A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LONGBOURN. "Skilful ...daring ...extraordinary". (The Guardian). "A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years". (IAN RANKIN). "Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good". (Daily Mail). "Marvellous, spare, moving ...Show more
A Country Road, a Tree by Jo Baker
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice The Servant's Story by Jo Baker
37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
35.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
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
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
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