Artifact by Arlene Heyman
$21.69 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Scary Old Sex, the story of a gifted young biologist's fight for the life, and the love, that she wants--a novel of sex, drive, and motherhood that crackles with female reality and desire. An homage to the body's capacity to impart amazement. - Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal A ...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
Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A TALE OF A TRAGEDY SEEPING THROUGH GENERATIONS, AND A FAMILY FRACTURED BY HISTORY AND DESIRE 'The characters in Bad Relations are so brilliantly real, so wonderfully compelling at their best, and at their worst, that I can't get them out of my head. A wonderful novel' Nina Stibbe'A writer who seems abl ...Show more
A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A high-octane story from the great Eric Ambler of a journalist on the run in the south of FranceLucia Bernardi was last seen driving a car at top speed away from a villa - and the body of her murdered Iraqi lover - in Switzerland. Now disgraced journalist Piet Maas has been sent to find her in the south ...Show more
The Secret by Alexandra Smith
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with grace and a steady hand. To many Australians, she was 'The Woman Who Saved Australia' for the way in which she navigate ...Show more
The Silence Project by Carole Hailey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their garden. From that day on, she never says another word. Inspired by her vow of silence, other women join her and together they build the Community. Eight years later, Rachel and thousands of her followers a ...Show more
Central Park West: the unmissable debut legal thriller of the year by James Comey
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The trial of the century. One chance to crack the case. A million ways to lose. Federal prosecutor Nora Carleton has spent years building a case against a powerful New York mobster. She finally has a star witness- an insider whose testimony will lock the defendant away for good. But the courtroom can b ...Show more
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics -- VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES 'Sleep Donation has a dreamlike beauty while remaining ominous and off-kilter. Parts of it gave me nightmares' Stephen ...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
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever. Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who f ...Show more
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'An extraordinary debut' (ANN PATCHETT) A coming-of-age story and an immersive love story. Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early twenties, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The debut novel from the author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writ ...Show more