The Inheritance of Loss: Popular Penguins by Kiran Desai
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives a ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
What Happened on Hicks Road by Hannah Jayne
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Those eyes. Wide. Ice blue. A swath of blond hair illuminated in headlights. Then, blackness. Thump! "We hit something." Lennox Oliver is loving her new life in California. For the first time, she feels normal. She has friends, and a maybe boyfriend and best of all no one knows the truth about her pa ...Show more
The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
An arresting, discomforting collection from 'one of Britain's best young short story writers' (The Telegraph) that revels in the rotten and festers in the imagination.
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more
The Melting by Lize Spit
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
<b>'Challenging and disturbing, <i>The Melting</i> is an incredibly cruel fable about friendship and adolescence . . . Spit knows no fear. It is we, the readers, that are left trembling.' - Leïla Slimani, author of <i>Lullaby</i></b> Eva can trace the route to Pim’s f ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins by Nick Hornby
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$24.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fic
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Marquez 2014 | Reading Level: very good
One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling.
Lost: Uncover Vanishing Wonders by Jess McGeachin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lost covers diverse topics within one vibrantly illustrated book: nature, geology, astronomy, archaeology, and biology with a sprinkling of philosophy. What does it mean to be lost? Is it stranded at sea without a map, or carefully camouflaged in the wild? Travel back in time to hear herds of honking di ...Show more
There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. Three essays, three deaths. ...Show more