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My Brother's Name is Jessica by John Boyne
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children
Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible. Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at ...Show more
Next of Kin by John Boyne
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes John Boyne's Next of Kin It is 1936, and London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic scion of a wealthy family, is anxiously awaiti ...Show more
Stay Where You Are And Then Leave by John Boyne
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
Part of a stunning new design partnership between Puffin and the Imperial War Museum, this is an unforgettable story from the bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. This special edition features a foreword from Eoin Colfer.The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father ...Show more
Stay Where You are and Then Leave by John Boyne
$26.99 NZD
Category: Children
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King ...Show more
The Absolutist by John Boyne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
September 1919: 20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot ...Show more
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne, the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is another extraordinary historical fiction about World War II and innocence in the face of evil. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix, a ser ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to d ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Dog Who Danced on the Moon by John Boyne
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children
A heartwarming, inspirational space adventure from award-winning bestselling author John Boyne and rising star illustrator Ashling Lindsay. There once was a boy called Jeremy Grace Who had a remarkable interest in space. He was quiet and shy, very often alone, Just him and his dog, spending time o ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. What a thing of wond ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humor and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity, and oblivion What a thing of won ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more