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A Very Peculiar Plague (#2 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: City of Orphans
'Bogles ain't like pigeons. They don't travel in flocks. So why is this corner o' London crawling with 'em?'Eleven-year-old Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a canny old crook named Sarah Pickles. Now she's betrayed him, and Jem wants revenge. He also wants to work for bogler ...Show more
A Very Singular Guild (City of Orphans #3) by Catherine Jinks
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: City of Orphans
Twelve-year-old Ned Roach used to scavenge for scraps along the Thames riverbank. But the recent plague of child-eating bogles in London means that he's now working as an apprentice to Alfred Bunce, the bogler.Alongside Jem Barbary and (sometimes) Birdie McAdam, Ned must lure bogles out of their lairs s ...Show more
A Very Unusual Pursuit (#1 City of Orphans) by Catherine Jinks
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: City of Orphans | Reading Level: very good
Monsters have been infesting London's dark places for centuries, eating every child who gets too close. That's why ten-year-old Birdie McAdam works for Alfred Bunce, the bogler. With her beautiful voice and dainty looks, Birdie is the bait that draws bogles from their lairs so that Alfred can kill them. ...Show more
Charlatan by Catherine Jinks
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Thomas Guthrie Carr is charged by Eliza Gray with mesmerising her and raping her while she was under his influence. But if mesmerism and Mr Carr are shams, was Eliza raped? In the tradition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Charlatan is the story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case involving a l ...Show more
Saving Thanehaven by Catherine Jinks
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children
New in paperback "How to Catch a Bogle" author Catherine Jinks creates a hilarious, multilayered new world--set inside a computer--in this terrific high adventure for older middle-graders. Noble is a knight with a heart that's true and, well, noble. With his not-so-trusty sword, Smite, he fights his way ...Show more
The Paradise Trap by Catherine Jinks
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: 8+
When Marcus and his mother arrive at the Diamond Beach Caravan Park, it is one big disappointment. For a start, it's nothing like the Diamond Beach that Marcus's mother remembers from her childhood, and Marcus can think of a hundred better ways of spending his holiday than in their crusty old caravan. B ...Show more
Traced by Catherine Jinks
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A contact tracer finds herself ensnared in her daughter's domestic nightmare in this new thriller from a master of the genre Jane is a contact tracer. She has to call a lot of people and some of them don't want to talk. Various reasons-tax or immigration issues, infidelity. Domestic abuse. Jane knows ...Show more
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