A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-i ...Show more
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$26.00 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
Lilac Girls (#1) by Martha Hall Kelly
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) “The best novel I read this year […] The atmosphere of post-war London that he conjures has stayed with me, and I love how the plot slowly unwinds, so you feel that you’re coming to unders ...Show more
Tell Me a Secret by Jane Fallon
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Holly is feeling on top of the world - celebrating a new promotion and dying to pop the champagne with her best friend Roz. But is Holly just imagining things, or is Roz - who supported her every step of the way - not as happy for her as she should be? Something about Roz's behaviour doesn't add up. And ...Show more
The Mister: The #1 Sunday Times bestseller by E L James
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that ...Show more
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Fa ...Show more
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. As pass ...Show more
Eight White Nights by André Aciman
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three wo ...Show more
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by MACKESY CHARLIE
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller. A book of hope for uncertain times. 'Feeling a little blue? Meet the new Winnie the Pooh.' - The Daily Mail .... 'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' - Richard Curtis. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely ...Show more