The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos--and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & TechnologyA Finalist for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA Smiths ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
What is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber command ...Show more
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel AwardA GUARDIAN SUMMER READING PICK'Sumptuous ... If you're feeling bereft after finishing The Mirror and the Light, let Jago transport you to the Jacobean court' Telegraph 'A bravura historical debut ... a gloriously immersive escape' Guardian --------- ...Show more
The Elephant Girl by James Patterson, Ellen Banda-Aaku and Sophia James Patterson Krevoy
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Jama is a clever and sensitive young Maasai girl who likes elephants better than people. She decides to escape the classroom gossip about the new boy, Leku, by going to the watering hole outside her village. There, she befriends a baby elephant that she names Mbegu. When Mbegu's mother, frightened by po ...Show more
The Glass House: A Novel by Beatrice Colin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch’s life hasn’t gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart; her burgeoning art career came to nothing; and when she looks in the mirror, she sees disappointment. But at least she will always have Balmarra, her family’s grand Scottish estate ...Show more
Face by Joma West
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
How much is your Face worth?Atwood meets Ishiguro in this domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame.Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face--rich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society.But in SchAddie's hou ...Show more
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape - Lee Child The master of the shadows of the era - The Times Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War and an early morning spy swap. On one side of the trade: Martin Keller, an American physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared ...Show more
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'The witty, improbably propulsive rom-com you didn't know you were waiting for' ELIF BATUMAN 'So good. I couldn't stop reading it' NICK HORNBY 'Cult Classic makes an uproarious time of romantic carnage' RAVEN LEILANI Lola - a die-hard New Yorker with the ex-boyfriends, late nights, cigarette-habit and s ...Show more
Bad Fruit by Ella King
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
‘Masterful in its evocation of the complexity of mother-daughter relationships, this is a darkly fascinating, tightly plotted narrative from a writer to watch’ Harper’s Bazaar I KNOW I’M A BAD PERSON. THAT THERE’S SOMETHING COILED AND ROTTEN IN ME. _______________________________________________________ ...Show more
Dawnlands (#3 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. The spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seven ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. 'More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inhe ...Show more
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short.No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.Dodging doctor's orde ...Show more