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The Secret History (Popular Penguin) by Donna Tartt
$13.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Condition: Excellent Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict rout ...Show more
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A METRO BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The year's must read novel' The Times'One of the most important books you'll pick up this decade' Harper's Bazaar'An outstanding book that could be this year's A Little Life' GuardianAt 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use o ...Show more
Circe by Madeline Miller
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey Chosen as must-read book of 2018 by the Guardian, i, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Express and Stylist In the house of Helios, god of t ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Richard and Judy Bookclub pick that readers are falling in love with.'It?s been a long time since I read anything so compelling and satisfying. At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending? - Sarah Winman, author of Tin ManForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin f ...Show more
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Kite Runner and The Other Hand - a testament to the human powers of survival. In the midst of war, he found love In the midst of darkness, he found courage In the midst of tragedy, he found hope What will you find from his story? Nuri is a beekeeper; his wi ...Show more
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is immediately d ...Show more
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
The German House by Annette Hess
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expo ...Show more
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love by Trent Dalton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 05
Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A widower miraculously finds a three-minute video recorded ...Show more
