The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Call by Gavin Strawhan
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize 2023 A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deportee gang, set in a remote coastal New Zealand townAfter surviving a brutal attack, Auckland cop DS Honey Chalmers has returned to her hometown to care for her mother. The remote coastal settlement of ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been runn ...Show more
Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An elegant and captivating debut novel, Aom Towles' Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent, a young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: good-very good
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funic ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a d ...Show more
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
The Zone of Interest (FTI) by Martin Amis
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Th ...Show more
Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Their mission is murder. His is revenge. A propulsive thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.THEIR MISSION IS MURDER. HIS IS REVENGE. Suzuki is just an ordinary man until his wife is murdered. When he discovers the criminal gang responsible he leaves behind his life as a maths teacher and ...Show more