The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Meet the happy couple. Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year's time. The best man, Archie, is meant to want to move up the corporate ladder and on from his love for Luke; yet he stands where he is, admiring the view. The bridesmaid, Phoebe, Celine's sis ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Claw of Attraction by David Michie
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The Dalai Lama's Cat returns in the latest instalment of the series by bestselling local author, David Michie The Dalai Lama regarded their flushed, animated faces, his forehead wrinkling. "The materialist approach," he nodded. "Seeking to change what you believe to be entirely outside you. It has many ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
The Three-Body Problem: Now a major Netflix series by Cixin Liu
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: The\Three-Body Problem Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists ...Show more
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Cormac Reilly Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget -- until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prov ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical | Reading Level: very good
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more
Out of the Dark: The gripping Sunday Times bestselling thriller by Gregg Hurwitz
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: An\Orphan X Thriller Ser.
As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from the orphanage he called home and inducted into a top secret Cold War programme. Trained as a lethal weapon, he and his fellow recruits were sent round the world to do the government's dirty work. But the programme was rotten to the core. And now the man responsible n ...Show more
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
One family's deepest pain. Another family's darkest secret. On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi'kmaq people from Nova Scotia, pick fruit. That afternoon, Ruthie vanishes ...Show more
This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Commissaire Adamsberg Ser.
"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen of French crime writers." -MARTIN WALKER, author of the Bruno, Chief of Police series A murder in Paris brings Commissaire Adamsberg out of the Icelandic mists of his previous investigation and unexpectedly in ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the worl ...Show more
The Traitor (#3 The Covenant of Steel) by Anthony Ryan
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy
"A gritty, heart-pounding tale of betrayal and bloody vengeance. I loved every single word." - John Gwynne on The PariahIt's been a long journey for Alwyn Scribe. Born a bastard and raised an outlaw, he's now a knight and the most trusted advisor to Lady Evadine Courlain. Together they've won countless ...Show more