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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
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) “The best novel I read this year […] The atmosphere of post-war London that he conjures has stayed with me, and I love how the plot slowly unwinds, so you feel that you’re coming to unde ...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
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ...Show more
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neigh ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...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
Circe by Madeline Miller
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
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
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE'Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' PAT BARKER'Phenomenal' SEBASTIAN BARRY'Superb' THE TIMESFrom his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal en ...Show more
