Once were warriors by Alan Duff
Alan Duff’s groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked-about books ever published in New Zealand and now the basis of a major New Zealand film.
This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising portrayal of Maoris in New Zealand society.
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
The first of three novels about Jason Bourne, hero extraordinaire, and a man who leaves no stone unturned. It is now a major movie starring Matt Damon . Who is Jason Bourne? And why does he have four million dollars in a Swiss bank account. It is a good question. And one, to which, Jason doesn’t know the answer. He has lost his memory, and his search to find out who he is and what he has done starts with one clue: somebody wants him dead. The more information Jason discovers, the more terrifying his quest becomes.
Derailed by James Siegel
Advertising director Charles Schine is just another New York commuter, regularly catching the 8.43 to work. But the day he misses his train is the day that changes his life. Catching the 9.05 instead, he can’t help but be drawn by the sight of the person opposite. Charles has never cheated on his wife in eighteen years of marriage. But then Charles has never met anyone like Lucinda Harris before. Charming, beautiful and a seductively good listener, Charles finds himself instantly attracted. And though Lucinda is married too, it is immediately apparent that the feeling is mutual. Their journeys into work become lunch dates, which become cocktails and eventually lead to a rented room in a seedy hotel. They both know the risks they are taking, but not in their worst nightmares could they foresee what is to follow.
Suddenly their temptation turns horrifically sour, and their illicit liaison becomes caught up in something bigger, more dangerous, more brutally violent. Unable to talk to his partner or the police, Charles finds himself trapped in a world of dark conspiracy and psychological games. Somehow he’s got to find a way to fight back, or his entire life will be spectacularly derailed for good.
ISBN: 0751534633
Condition: Like new
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
The sequel to “Silence of the Lambs” marks the return of Dr Hannibal Lecter. One of Hannibal’s victims, the influential and rich Mason Verger – a paraplegic confined to a respirator, thanks to Hannibal – is bent on revenge and Clarice Starling provides the perfect bait.
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to a open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. The State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. Unable to parley his skills into a job in aerospace in the US, the house represents an entry into real estate and a passport to the future of his family and his own version of the American Dream. For Kathy, its loss is the last of a series of insults life has dealt her. When she becomes involved with a married policeman who takes up her cause, the stage is set for a gut-wrenching tragedy.
Primary Colors by Anonymous
Primary Colors is a fictional account of a presidential primary campaign. The book is obviously based on the Clinton campaign in 1992 and it has the feel of an inside job. The details of the campaign and the portraits of the candidate, Jack Stanton and his wife Susan, seem like they must have been drawn by someone who viewed Bill and Hillary Clinton up close. One Clinton insider, on being asked if he wrote the book commented “I only wish I had. Unfortunately I don’t write that well”. Primary Colors is a stellar piece of writing. Not only does the anonymous author have a gift for prose, he also has a fine eye for characters and an intimate knowledge of politics. The author also has a subtle sense of humor, which is finely laced throughout the story.
Bridget Joness Diary by Helen Fielding
This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement–in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, adulterers, workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. And learn to program the VCR.
Caught between her Singleton friends, who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian, and the Smug Marrieds, whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel (or at least afloat). Through it all, she will have her readers helpless with laughter and shouting, “BRIDGET JONES IS ME!”
Primal Fear by William Diehl
Young Adam Stampler was caught red-handed after a murder that had the city reeling. He looks bound to fry, but he swears he’s innocent.
In a desperate gamble for justice, Vail must reach deep into the recesses of a killer’s mind, to flush out a monster of infinite cunning and evil. Explosive, haunting and brilliantly suspenseful, Primal Fear is truly a terrifying read.
Jurrasic Park/Congo by Michael Crichton (Hard Cover)
JURASSIC PARK – On a remote island genetics engineers have created a dinosaur game park. Then a rival firm tries to steal frozen embryos, and the nightmare begins.
CONGO – Three intrepid adventurers plunge into the heart of Africa in a desperate bid for the fabulous diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj.
Disclosure by Michael Crichton (Hard Cover)
A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry…A shattering psychological game of cat and mouse…A shocking accusation that threatens to derail a brilliant career…




