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The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting
$27.99 NZD
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"Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel" MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees "An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your h ...Show more
Girl by Edna O'Brien
$32.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: near fine
Girl, Edna O'Brien's courageous new novel is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a gi ...Show more
Foe by Iain Reid
$22.99 NZD
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'Reads like a house on fire' - the extraordinary new novel by Iain Reid, the acclaimed author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things You think you know everything about your life. Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and ...Show more
Call Me Evie by J. P. Pomare
$24.99 NZD
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'I read it in one go' Harriet Tyce, author of BLOOD ORANGE 'A smart, propulsive thriller' Kate Hamer, THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT 'One of the most striking debuts I've read in years' A. J. Finn, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW **** Don't trust him. It wasn't me. It couldn't have been me. Meet Evie, a you ...Show more
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
$19.99 NZD
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"I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!" Liane Moriarty The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland. They are at the stockman''s gr ...Show more
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
$22.99 NZD
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An enchanting and captivating novel, about how our untold stories haunt us - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who rai ...Show more
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
$26.00 NZD
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Do you remember when you believed in magic? An enchanting, magical novel set in a mysterious toyshop - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Stephanie Garber's Caraval by way of Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of Londo ...Show more
Prague Nights by Benjamin Black
$26.00 NZD
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The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow. The dead woman is none other than the emper ...Show more
The Shack by Wm Paul Young
$24.99 NZD
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation. Evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note--apparentl ...Show more
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
$27.99 NZD
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing ...Show more
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
$28.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
$24.99 NZD
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'Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped...visually acute, skilfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind.' HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies There are six homesteads on Blackasen Mountain. A day's journey away lies the empty town. ...Show more