The Games Gods Play (The Crucible #1) by Abigail Owen
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: The Crucible
Every hundred years, the Greek gods toy with us mere mortals. And we let them... until now. A Court of Thorns and Roses meets The Hunger Games meets Neon Gods meets Percy Jackson in an alternate contemporary world where the gods of mythology never died. The gods love to toy with us mere mortals. And ...Show more
The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice hotel, dark secrets unravel and not everyone who checked into the hotel will check out again. Signora Loretta Bianchi, the world famous cook at Venice's Hotel Il Cuore, is forced to choose between once-in-a-lifetime passi ...Show more
The Masquerades of Spring: The Brand New Rivers of London Novella by Ben Aaronovitch
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
New York City, New York.Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps.That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone - which wi ...Show more
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves & China Mieville
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast who cannot die. A mind-blowing epic from Keanu Reeves and China Mieville, unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before, inspired by the ...Show more
Shanghai by Joseph Kanon
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
In this dazzling thriller, internationally bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business. A love affair against all odds, a city dancing on the rim of a volcano--Shang ...Show more
The Doctors Wife by Fiona Sussman
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in the living room, naked except for a black apron, bleaching out a stain in the carpet that only she can see. A CT scan one week later explains the seemingly inexplicable; Carmen Andino has a brain tumour. A ...Show more
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering ...Show more
The Gods Below: Book One of the Hollow Covenant by Andrea Stewart
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Gods Below begins a sweeping epic from fantasy's newest master world-smith Andrea Stewart, a story of magic, betrayal, love, and loyalty, where two sisters will clash on opposite sides of a war against the gods. A divine war shattered the world leaving humanity in ruins. Desperate for hope, they st ...Show more
The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle's spectacular return to his iconic heroine, Paula Spencer'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant...passionate, funny and humane'DAVID NICHOLLSAt sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor - is finally living her life. ...Show more
Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Empire of the Vampire #2 | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. After turning his back on his silversaint brothers once and for all, Gabriel and the Grail set out to learn the truth of how Daysdeath might finally be undone. But the last silversaint faces peril, wit ...Show more
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #25) by Alexander McCall Smith
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
Precious Ramotswe takes on an interesting but sensitive case and learns valuable lessons along the way in this next installment of the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe has a deft hand in delicate cases, and never allows an act of injustice to pass unanswered. So, when it come ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Reading Level: very good
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair, ...Show more