Beastings by Benjamin Myers
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers' Award'A brilliant, brutal novel' ROBERT MACFARLANEA girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing rural England. When a teenage girl leaves the workhouse and abducts a child placed in her ...Show more
Amok by Stefan Zweig (Author)
$12.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and desire, pride and shame and a headlong flight into folly. This is one the most intense and incisi ...Show more
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig (Author)
$12.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life...Burning Secret is a witty, potent look at ...Show more
The Triumph of the Sun (Courtney series #12 & Ballantyne #5) by Wilbur A. Smith
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: courtney series #12 / ballantyne series #5 | Reading Level: near fine
Menace emanated from them as fiercely as the heat from the sun. Night and day, the drums never stopped, a constant reminder of the mortal threat that hung over them. She could hear them booming across the waters, like the heartbeat of the monster. An unimaginable enemy will bring them together . . . In ...Show more
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the famil ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red-bric ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival-literally scratching numbers into his fell ...Show more
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
$31.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet, the nearby village and a small market town - is ba ...Show more
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Melina Marchetta's brilliant, heart-wrenching new novel takes up the story of the group of friends from her best-selling, much-loved book Saving Francesca - only this time it's five years later and Thomas Mackee is the one who needs saving. Thomas Mackee wants oblivion. Wants to forget parents who leave ...Show more
All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and "one of India's greatest living authors" (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was kno ...Show more
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The health and wellness retreat at Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete serenity. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigora ...Show more