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Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie ...Show more
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
$35.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below
The new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. W ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
$32.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: good
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; long ...Show more
Call Me Evie by J. P. Pomare
$34.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: 2 Crime
In this propulsive, twist-filled, and haunting psychological suspense debut perfect for fans of Sharp Objects and Room, a seventeen-year-old girl struggles to remember the role she played on the night her life changed forever. For the past two weeks, seventeen-year-old Kate Bennet has lived against he ...Show more
The Encircling Sea (#2 Vindolanda) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
AD 100: Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, is finding it hard to keep the peace. Based at Vindolanda - an army fort on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world - he feels the eyes of his enemies on him at all hours. Ambitious leaders sense a chance to carve out empires of t ...Show more
Skin by Ilka Tampke
$37.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: A\Daughter of Albion Novel Ser.
For the people of Caer Cad, 'skin' is their totem, their greeting, their ancestors, their land Ailia does not have skin. Abandoned at birth, she serves the Tribequeen of her township. Ailia is not permitted to marry, excluded from tribal ceremonies and, most devastatingly, forbidden to learn. But the M ...Show more
The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
$26.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below
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
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
$45.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: good-very good
Reviewed by Pascale, one of our longstanding casual staff members and a creative writing major. Murakami’s new novel Killing Commendatore is the Kyoto-born author at his whimsical best. Compelling and enigmatic, it follows a Japanese portrait painter and the unusual happenings that unfold when he moves ...Show more
The Diary of a Bookseller (PB) by Shaun Bythell
$24.99 NZD
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Shaun Bythell owns the Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
$24.99 NZD
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A Zoe Ball ITV Book Club Pick. 'A remarkable feat of imagination ... I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent 'A powerful tale of Barbary pirates ... richly imagined.' Sunday Times 'Engrossing' Sunday Express 'Fascinating ... a really, really good read' BBC R2 ...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
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
