Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
25.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
27.99 NZD
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*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019* 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 ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
27.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
28.99 NZD
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Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world o ...Show more
The Name of the Wind: The legendary must-read fantasy masterpiece by Patrick Rothfuss
27.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Series: The Kingkiller Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
"No one writes about stories like Pat Rothfuss. How the right story at the right time can change the world, how the teller can shape a life." --Lin-Manuel Miranda This deluxe, illustrated edition celebrates the New York Times-bestselling series, The Kingkiller Chronicle--a masterful epic fantasy saga th ...Show more
Devotion by Hannah Kent
24.99 NZD
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'A glorious love story' - Sarah Winman, author of Still Life Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award From the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Devotion is a stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist. Hanne and Thea's friendship is a miracle. ...Show more
The Very Last List of Vivian Walker by Megan Albany
27.99 NZD
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A funny, light-hearted story about dying – from the perspective of the person about to “shuffle off this mortal coil”. Vivian is something of a control freak, even though she has a terminal illness – a bit of a “my way or the highway” sort of person. So...an obvious “list maker” not only for herself b ...Show more
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
24.99 NZD
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An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody! 'As addictive and intoxicating as the perfect martini. Don't start reading unless you have cancelled all your plans.' - Sarah Bailey, author of The Dark Lake an ...Show more
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
34.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: near fine
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
24.99 NZD
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Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
27.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
29.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more