The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins
37.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy
An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and Druids, stalwart warriors and the goddess struggling to reign over magic's last outpost on the earth.
Gravity Well by Melanie Joosten
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Lotte is an astronomer who spends her nights peering into deep space rather than looking too closely at herself. When she returns to her hometown after years in South America, reeling from a devastating diagnosis, she finds that much has changed. Lotte's father has remarried, and she feels like an outsi ...Show more
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway AwardWinner of the NBCC's John Leonard AwardShortlisted for the British Book Award - Debut of the YearA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, E ...Show more
The Circle by Dave Eggers
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportun ...Show more
Some Tests by Wayne Macauley
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It begins with the normally healthy Beth--aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Em--feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. ''There are a few things here that aren''t quite right,'' says Dr Yi, ''and sometimes it is these little wrongnesses that can lead us ...Show more
Fever at Dawn by Peter Gardos
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In July 1945, Mikl s, a Hungarian survivor of Belsen, arrives in a refugee camp in Sweden. He is skin and bone, and has no teeth. The doctor says he has only months to live.But Mikl s has other plans. He acquires a list of 117 young Hungarian women who are also in refugee camps in Sweden, and he writes ...Show more
Cousins by Salley Vickers
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
How much can love ask of us? Brilliant and mercurial Will Tye suffers a life changing accident. The terrible event ripples through three generations of the complex and eccentric Tye family, bringing to light old tragedies and dangerous secrets. Each member of the family holds some clue to the chain of e ...Show more
Losing it by Moira Burke
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the 1980s in the Melbourne suburb of Fawkner, Josie's father is drinking himself to an ugly and appalling death. Josie's mother is a factory machinist, bringing home piecework to keep the family afloat. And Josie is surviving, or not-self-destructive sex, excessive alcohol, drugs, brutalised friends ...Show more
Phone by Will Self
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Meet Jonathan De'Ath, aka 'the Butcher'. The curious thing about the Butcher is that everyone who knows him - his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his so-called friends, his spooky colleagues and his multitudinous lovers - they all apply t ...Show more
You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'I opened this book to a random page, read five lines - and finished it at three that morning. It's the voice that does it: edgy, conflicted, desperately urgent, the voice of a young man who's both too smart and (if you believe him) not quite smart enough for the inexorable spiral of events into which h ...Show more
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times).I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for jus ...Show more