A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
25.99 NZD
Category: General 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
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
25.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Don Tillman Ser.
'We've got something to celebrate,' Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone with her thesis. Or perhaps she had been offered a place in the psychiatry-training programme. This would be extremely g ...Show more
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Don Tillman | Reading Level: very good
Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also ...Show more
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
25.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
***NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG***A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, ...Show more
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling author of Neverwhere returns with his biggest, most commercial novel yet--a tour de force of contemporary fiction A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary ...Show more
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island she grew up on to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself ...Show more
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has onl ...Show more
Sea of Poppies: Ibis Trilogy Book 1 by Amitav Ghosh
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Ibis Trilogy Ser.
The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to ...Show more
Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters #2) by Juliet Marillier
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Sevenwaters Trilogy
Beautiful Sorcha is the courageous young woman who risked all to save her family from a wicked curse and whose love shattered generations of hate and bridged two cultures. It is from her sacrifice that Sorcha's brothers were brought home to their ancestral fortress Sevenwaters, and her life has known mu ...Show more
Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A stunning, deeply moving autobiographical novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a fo ...Show more
The End (#6 My Struggle) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
25.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: My Struggle Ser.
The extraordinary final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard?s monumental My Struggle series, 'perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times? (Guardian)The Endis the sixth and final book in the monumental My Struggle cycle. Here, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature wit ...Show more