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He Lover of Death by Boris Akunin
60.00 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ra ...Show more
Leviathan by Boris Akunin (trans Andrew Bromfield)
35.00 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
The new bestselling Erast Fandorin mystery. On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship ...Show more
Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin
24.99 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Erast Fandorin Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The new Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 'Akunin is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes...The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a ...Show more
Pelagia and the Black Monk by Boris Akunin
36.99 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: General Fiction
Fresh from solving the case of The White Bulldog, Pelagia is approached by a mysterious, black-hooded monk, who begs her to investigate a series of murders that have taken place in his all-male island monastery.'The plot is lively and full of twists, the characters are strong, the denouement is exciting ...Show more
Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Boris Akunin
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The first of Akunin's bestselling Sister Pelagia MysteriesIn the dying days of the Nineteenth Century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner.Meanw ...Show more
She Lover Of Death: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: good
There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigator ho ...Show more
Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin
35.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Two new adventures for Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero in which Erast Fandorin faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886, and the other a brutal ...Show more
The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin
35.00 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
The fourth bestselling novel in the Erast Fandorin series, with 10 million copies sold in Russia alone.International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale; if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is about to ...Show more
The State Counsellor: Further Adventures of Fandorin by Boris Akunin
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards the train at Klin, where it has been delayed by s ...Show more
The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Erast Fandorin Mysteries Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Introducing Russia's bestselling literary thriller writer. 'An absolute delight. Think Tolstoy writing James Bond with the logical rigour of Sherlock Holmes. A hoot.' - Guardian This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. Moscow ...Show more
Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin
35.00 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows. Captured by the Turks, he wins his freedom in a game of backgammon, before finding himself the unlikely rescuer of Varvara Suvorova - a 'progre ...Show more