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Dark Earth by Rebecca Stott
32.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The new novel from the Costa-Award winning author of In The Days of Rain.AD 500. An island in the Thames.Isla has a secret: she has learned her father's sophisticated sword-making skills at a time when even entering a forge is forbidden to women. Her sister, Blue, has a secret, too: at low tide on the n ...Show more
Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A scientific detective story that illuminates the remarkable saga of Darwin's greatest achievement. Pairing Charles Darwin and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott has written an absorbing work of history that guides readers through the treacherous shoals of nineteenth- ...Show more
Darwin's Ghosts - In Search of the First Evolutionists by Rebecca Stott
24.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual fore ...Show more
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
27.99 NZD
31.99 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
The son of a reclusive historian finds his mother's drowned body in the tributary of the River Cam that runs through her garden. She is clutching a glass prism. Elizabeth Vogelsang's magnum opus, a book on Isaac Newton's alchemy, is incomplete. Lydia Brooke, a writer friend of the dead historian, return ...Show more
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge - as well as a four-hundred year-old murder mystery in which Isaac Newton is a suspect.
In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult. 'At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn't explain how I'd become a ...Show more
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