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A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
It is 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with chickenpox during a heat wave. The events of that summer will change her family's lives for ever. An engaging and insightful novel about the joys and complications of modern life, "A Famil ...Show more
A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Maile Meloy's debut novel Liars and Saints captured the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now Meloy returns with a novel even more dazzling than her first. Brilliantly entertaining, A Family Daughter might also be the most insightful novel about families and love that you will read this year.It`s ...Show more
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for.""This summer's undoubtable smash hit... an addictive, heart-palpitating story." --Marie ClaireThe sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disap ...Show more
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
A first book of fiction that has won awards as well as rave reviews. "A sparkling debut collection of tight, watchful stories." -New York Times. "A truly compelling discovery." -Chicago Tribune. "She never falters... a writer not of promise, but with a fully realised gift." Meloy's wonderful, subsequent ...Show more
Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy
26.99 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Motivated by jealousy and propriety as much as by love, the Santerre family are torn apart by secrets. When tragedy ensues, courage and compassion are needed to bring them back together. "An impressive achievement." Philip Roth. "Spectacular... She can telegraph years in a few sentences or lines of d ...Show more
The After-Room (Apothecary #3) by Maile Meloy
24.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: The Apothecary
It's 1955, and Benjamin Burrows and Janie Scott are trying to live a safe, normal life in America. It's not easy, when they have the power to prevent nuclear disaster, and sinister forces are circling. Soon the advice of a mysterious, unscrupulous magician propels Janie and Benjamin into danger, and tow ...Show more
The Apothecary (Apothecary #1) by Maile Meloy
26.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Apothecary | Reading Level: 10+
It's 1952 and the Scott family has moved unexpectedly from Los Angeles to London. Janie feels uncomfortable in her strange new school, until the local apothecary promises her a remedy for homesickness. But the real cure is meeting the apothecary's son Benjamin, a curiously defiant boy who dreams of beco ...Show more
The Apprentices by Maile Meloy
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Apothecary
It's 1954, and Janie Scott is in boarding school in New Hampshire, trying to make a new life. Two years have passed since she last saw the mysterious apothecary--or his defiant son, Benjamin. All she knows is that her friends are out there somewhere, trying to keep the world safe in an age of mounting a ...Show more
The Octopus Escapes by Maile Meloy
22.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
From a New York Times bestselling author comes this poignant, lyrical tale about nature's great escape artist--now in a board book edition!The octopus is happy in his undersea cave until one day, a diver captures him and takes him to live in an aquarium. The humans give him food and tests that look like ...Show more
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