Three Plays: Rising Water, Signs of Life, Shrine by Tim Winton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col, Baxter and Jackie living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina. Each of them nurse ...Show more
The Girl on the 88 Bus by Freya Sampson
$36.99 NZD
$37.53 (1% off)
Category: Fiction
A beautifully uplifting novel about how one chance meeting can change the course of your life. When Libby Nicholls arrives in London, broken-hearted and with her life in tatters, the first person she meets on the bus is elderly pensioner Frank. He tells her about the time in 1962 he met a girl on the nu ...Show more
The Winter Garden by Alexandra Bell
$26.43 NZD
Category: Fiction
Welcome to the Winter Gardens of Half Moon House. Please do not mishandle the exhibits. (The owners accept no liability for any events that occur, magical or otherwise.) The Winter Garden open at the stroke of midnight with no great fanfare - after all, this is a time when all virtuous folk should be i ...Show more
Black Sun (#1 Alexander Vasin Trilogy) by Owen Matthews
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
1961. Hidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any map- a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists and technicians is building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever see - three thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. But days ...Show more
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
WANTED- A bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.Mari ...Show more
Monsters in the Garden - An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy by David Larsen; Elizabeth Knox
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this an ...Show more
Fair Play: A Novel by Tove Jansson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
What mattered most to Tove Jansson, she explained in her eighties, was work and love, a sentiment she echoes in this tender and original novel. Translated for the first time into English, "Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsink ...Show more
Traitor by Tom Wood
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Victor the Assassin 10 | Reading Level: very good
SOMEONE'S GOING TO DIE When Victor is arrested for a murder that, for once, he didn't commit, escape must surely be inevitable for a hitman of his ferocity. Yet someone wants Victor put away, and he finds himself behind bars, incarcerated by police who have no idea of the monster they are dealing with a ...Show more
Animal Farm (Dyslexia-Friendly Classics) (Barrington Stoke) by George Orwell
$16.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dyslexia-Friendly Classics Ser.
Orwell's powerful, unnerving and timeless allegory of oppression and rebellion, brought to life for a new age of readers in a stunning dyslexia-friendly edition. When the lazy and drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm forgets to feed his livestock the down-trodden and over-worked animals unite to take back th ...Show more
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The debut memoir from a brilliant new voice in non-fiction - gloriously funny, bitingly well-observed and emotionally raw. ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Indecently entertaining' Guardian 'Hilarious' The Times I had no idea how to commit to another human being. I could barely commit to reading a mag ...Show more
Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us eleven glittering stories of love - friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts - in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime.The games and rituals performed by Katheri ...Show more
Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own-only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request. After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and ...Show more