Wild by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and the promise of new beginnings.In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olymp ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more
The Fell by Robert Jenkins
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man – and he comes to believe that heroism is all. The arres ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The new novel from the prize-winning author of Solar Bones exploring judgement, penance, loss and recovery. How do you rebuild the world? How do you put it back together? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat o ...Show more
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the Number One multi-million copy international bestselling author of THE FOUR WINDS and THE NIGHTINGALE. Winter Garden is a haunting and compelling novel illuminating the intricacy of mother-daughter bonds and the enduring links between past and present.Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different a ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling o ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
Take Two by Danielle Hawkins
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Sometimes, you have to revisit your past to find your future. Laura and Doug were together for ages. Their breakup was just one of those things - she wanted children, he didn't, no hard feelings - at least not until, with their relationship barely cold in its grave, he got his new girlfriend pregnant. ...Show more
Small Hours by Bobby Palmer
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg. If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden...You'd see a father and son, a fox standing between them. You wouldn't know that Jack has returned ...Show more