One of Those Mothers by Megan Nicol Reed
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A raw domestic thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and The Slap. If you were gripped by Big Little Lies, you'll love One of Those Mothers. The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasionally they cheat on their taxes. Sometimes they fantasise about ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori fo ...Show more
At The Grand Glacier Hotel by Laurence Fearnley
37.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
From award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley comes an intriguing story about recovery, reflection and reconnecting with ourselves and others. Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a promise- If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again, it will be to stay at the ma ...Show more
Ephemera by Tina Shaw
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
"We were probably doomed from the moment the virus hit the airports..." - from the opening chapter of an insanely prescient new novel by Tina Shaw, written before the Covid-19 crisis. After an international meltdown, New Zealand, along with the rest of the world, has shut down. No electricity, no broad ...Show more
Hannah and Huia by Charlotte Lobb
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Hannah is in a mental health unit, in shock and rendered speechless following the sudden death of her husband and baby son one rainy night – for which she feels unspeak-able guilt. She pays little attention to her institutional surroundings as events play and replay inside her head. There is no way out, ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Heart Of Coal by Jenny Pattrick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Eighteen years have passed since the child Rose arrived on Denniston, riding up the terrifying Incline on a stormy night. She has now grown into a young woman, intelligent and talented, with an outrageous zest for life. The trauma of her early years seems forgotten, though some recognise its shadow in h ...Show more
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
TWO HOURS TO VANISH Ten people have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter, FUSION can track anyone wherever they are on earth. But does it work? ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE Each participant is given two hours to 'Go Zero' – to go off-gri ...Show more
The Deck by Fiona Farrell
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
During a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escape to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. The Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece The Decameron t ...Show more
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you will adore Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts. 'Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts plunges the reader into the gru ...Show more
Dwellers on the Threshold (Wraiths and Strays #3) by Stephen Lomax & Shiree Taylor
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Returning to Kent after filming a paranormal documentary at an ancient estate in Wales, the WASP team members try to resume their normal lives, but they soon become aware that something has changed. Dianna, the team’s psychic, suspects that they have brought back more than just a supernatural experien ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cav ...Show more