BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Published as Beartown in USA
In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the town is offered a bright new future. But it is all put in jeopardy by a sin ...Show more
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Days Without End and The Secret Scripture, and one of our most soulful living writers, Old God's Time is an extraordinary novel about memory, love, mystery and reckoning.
All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A wickedly funny and genuinely moving debut novel perfect for fans of Richard Osman and The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Jumped Out the Window. "In the beginning is the whatsitsname. The woman in the car park. She wears a nightgown and lies on her back, looking up at the sky. The nightgown is white and ...Show more
Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale -- from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre. When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the C ...Show more
How I Won A Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Helen, a graduate student on a quest to save the planet, is one of the best minds of her generation. But when her irreplaceable advisor’s student sex scandal is exposed, she must choose whether to give up on her work or accompany him to RIP, a research institute which grants safe harbour to the disgrace ...Show more
The Women by Kristin Hannah
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds, The Nightingale and Firefly Lane (a Number One series on Netflix), The Women is a story of devastating loss and epic love. It is both an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and a story of a nation divided by war.It would ...Show more
Pelican Girls by Julia Malye
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A historical feministic epic, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver, The Matrix by Lauren Groff and Maggie Shipstead's The Great Circle. Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women. Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives. At ...Show more
Small Hours by Bobby Palmer
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg. If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden...You'd see a father and son, a fox standing between them. You wouldn't know that Jack has returned ...Show more
The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends and do everything together. They spy on their father as he paints, they rankle their mother as she manages the books, they tear barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But there is another reason they are in ...Show more
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. I ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club (PB) by Kate Thompson
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when the ...Show more
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The English-language debut of one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan. Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid--if sometimes surreal--portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life.