Home : New writing by editor: Thom Conroy
39.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of 'Home' and commissioned from 21 of New Zealand's best writers. Strong, relevant, topical and pertinent, these essays are also compelling, provocative and affecting, they carry the reader from Dunedin to West Papua, Jamaica to Grey's Avenue ...Show more
Everything, Everything (Film Tie-in) by Nicola Yoon
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Everything, Everythingis now a major motion picture starring Amanda Stenberg from The Hunger Gamesand Love Simon's Nick Robinson. A #1 New York Times Bestseller! 'Absolutely loved the book' - Zoella Maddy is allergic to the world; stepping outside the sterile sanctuary of her home could kill her. But th ...Show more
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
"The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail, and the vivid, unsettling clarity they bring to our lives." (Sunday Times). An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is ab ...Show more
Age of Myth (Legends First Empire #1) by Michael J. Sullivan
24.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: The\Legends of the First Empire Ser.
One of fantasy's finest next-generation storytellers continues to break new ground. Michael J. Sullivan's trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and sympathetic characters won a devoted readership ...Show more
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Alexander Freed
26.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Star Wars Ser.
The Sunday Times Bestseller. Go beyond the film with a novelization featuring new scenes and expanded material. As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire worlds to their knees. Dee ...Show more
Sisi: Empress on Her Own by Allison Pataki
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - For readers of Philippa Gregory, Paula McLain, and Daisy Goodwin comes a sweeping and powerful novel by Allison Pataki. Sisi tells the little-known story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, the Princess Diana of her time, in an enthralling work of historical fiction that ...Show more
The One by John Marrs
37.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
How far would you go to find THE ONE? One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find ...Show more
Creation Machine: Spin Trilogy #1 by Andrew Bannister
26.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The Spin Trilogy
It is the aftermath of civil war in the vast pageant of planets and stars known as The Spin. Three years since he crushed the rebellion, Viklun Haas, industrialist and leader of the Hegemony, is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his own daughter. But Fleare Haas, fighter for Soci ...Show more
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down."--Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." --GQ A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A ...Show more
Iron Gods by Andrew Bannister
37.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The Spin Trilogy
The Spin, an ancient artificial cluster of eighty-eight planets and twenty-two suns - is in decline. The boundaries of the formerly prosperous Inside have shrunk to a mere eleven planets, their trade routes are cut off, and their last remaining source of income comes from selling the services of their v ...Show more
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was a ...Show more
The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A REDISCOVERED AMERICAN CLASSIC. Gertie is the young mother of five children - uneducated, determined, strong. Her only ambition is to own her own small farm in the Kentucky hills where she lives, to become self-sufficient and free. Whenever the struggle to live off the land eases, her inarticulate imag ...Show more