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Force of Nature by Jane Harper
$19.99 NZD
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From the international bestselling author of The Dry and The Lost Man. Lost, Cold, Desperate ... Danger Runs Deep Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side.The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the o ...Show more
All This by Chance by Vincent O'Sullivan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
If we don't have the past in mind, it is merely history. If we do, it is still part of the present. Esther's grandparents first meet at a church dance in London in 1947. Stephen, a shy young Kiwi, has left to practise pharmacy on the other side of the world. Eva has grown up English, with no memory of ...Show more
Vindolanda (#1) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
Gripping, authentic novel set in Roman Britain from bestselling historian, Adrian Goldsworthy. AD 98: VINDOLANDA. A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over twenty years time, the Emper ...Show more
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
$24.99 NZD
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Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted AuthorCosta Award WinnerThomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the men ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
$26.00 NZD
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Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen; Hester Velmans (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
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A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Bachman's A Man Called Ove: an irresistible, funny, charming, and tender-hearted tale about friendship, love, and an old man who is young at heart. "FUNNY AND FRANK...A STORY WITH A GREAT DEAL OF HEART."--Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling a ...Show more
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
$24.99 NZD
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Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century, sur ...Show more
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
$27.99 NZD
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'A Mad Max world painted with a finer brush' Elle 'An unforgettable journey into a hauntingly imagined near-future' Ruth Ozeki 'Set in a drought-ravaged Southern California trolled by scavengers, Gold Fame Citrus burns with a dizzying, scorching genius' Vanity Fair Desert sands have laid waste to the so ...Show more
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
$24.99 NZD
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The breathtaking new novel set during the Blitz by the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the reader and bookseller favourite, Little Bee. As World War Two begins, Mary, a young socialite, is determined to shock her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort. She is assign ...Show more
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
$18.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
Disclaimer by Renee Knight
$26.00 NZD
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. Imagine if the next thriller you opened was all about you. "An addictive novel with shades of Gone Girl". (Sunday Times). When an intriguing novel appears on Catherine's bedside table, she curls up and begins to read. But as she turns the pages she is horrified to realize she ...Show more
