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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...Show more
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, returns with All Our Shimmering Skies - a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic. Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain overhead, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, turns once again to the sky for gui ...Show more
The Strays of Paris by Jane Smiley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, The Strays of Paris is a captivating story of three extraordinary animals - and one little boy - whose lives cross paths in Paris. Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one ...Show more
Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'Absolutely dazzling' Marian Keyes 'Startling, urgent and intimate' Lisa McInerney 'I lived every scene as I read' Donal Ryan Being Tommy's mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fi ...Show more
In Search of a Name by Marjolijn Van Heemstra
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle's supposed heroism during World War II. D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot. But in my m ...Show more
The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES AUDIBLE SHORT STORY AWARD 'A gripping novel and a sharp, entertaining examination of the nature of art and its power to inspire and corrupt' Roddy Doyle Nessa McCormack's marriage is coming back together again after her husband's affair. She is excited to be in charge of a re ...Show more
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here. 'Full of wisdom and kindness. It is just the kind of book I adore' JOANNA CANNON 'Touching and honest and funny. I completely and wholeheartedly fell for Lenni and Margot' NINA POTTELL Life is short - no one knows that bet ...Show more
Quiet In Her Bones by Nalini Singh
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime
In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest.My mother vanished ten years ago.So did a quarter of a million dollars in cash.Now, she's back.Her bones clot ...Show more
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
Based on the true scandal that rocked the court of James I, A Net for Small Fishes is the most gripping novel you'll read this year- an exhilarating dive into the pitch-dark waters of the Jacobean court. Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family and is the most unhappy creature in the world. Anne ...Show more
Later by Stephen King
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime
#1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born w ...Show more
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
IN THE DARKNESS OF WAR, THE LIGHT OF BOOKS Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is the unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together. PARIS, 1939 Odile Souchet is obsessed with books, ...Show more