Pet by Catherine Chidgey
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud ...Show more
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Their mission is murder. His is revenge. A propulsive thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible he leaves behind his life as a maths teacher and ...Show more
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Popular Penguins) by Katherine Mansfield
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: Very Good
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emo ...Show more
Light at Lavelle by Paullina Simons
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
TORN BETWEEN WHAT THEY CANNOT HAVE AND WHAT THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT. It is 1929. The world is about to change. Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable ha ...Show more
The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3) by Richard Osman
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club Ser.
The third book in the record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British national treasure Richard Osman. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them t ...Show more