The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A Times, Guardian, and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year for 2022Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction'It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it' - Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow & BlissMeet the Ha ...Show more
Standing Heavy by Gauz
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
"One of those rare, transformative novels" KARIM MISKE"Funny and poignant" TIFFANY TSAO, author of The MajestiesInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.Babies adore the security guard. ...Show more
Another Life by Kristin Hannah
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Angie DeSaria has spent years of her life trying to have a child. Now, her marriage has crumbled under the strain. Adrift and alone, she returns to her childhood home, a small coastal town in the Pacific Northwest, to help try and rescue the beloved, failing family business. Lauren Ribido is a senior in ...Show more
Kala by Colin Walsh
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
The High Mountain Court by AK Mulford
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: The\Five Crowns of Okrith Ser.
The thrilling TikTok sensation from A.K. Mulford - full of romance, intrigue, magic, and passion, the first book of the Five Crowns of Okrith series begins the journey of the fugitive red witch Remy as she fights to reclaim her kingdom and discover what's inside her heart. Nineteen-year-old Remy knows s ...Show more
Boulder by Eva Baltasar
33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportu ...Show more
Dice by Claire Baylis
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
Next in Line by Jeffrey Archer
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns THE UNPUTDOWNABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER ‘Only someone like Jeffrey Archer . . . could have written a compelling story like this. Every page bristles with suspense and the ending comes at you with the force of a tank round’ DAVID BALDACCI ...Show more
Crook Manifesto: Fast, fun, ribald and pulpy, with a touch of Quentin Tarantino Sunday Times by Colson Whitehead
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Harlem Shuffle 2 | Reading Level: near fine
1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his life on t ...Show more
The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction by Robert Goddard
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
The second instalment featuring unlikely private investigator Umiko Wada and the Kodaka Detective Agency. Umiko Wada never set out to be private detective, let alone become the one-woman operation behind the Kodaka Detective Agency. And with her former boss recently deceased in mysterious circumstances ...Show more
A Bakery in Paris: A Novel by Aimie K. Runyan
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre. ...Show more
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she's ambivalent at bes ...Show more