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Hamnet (PB) by Maggie O'Farrell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Literature
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
The Old Enemy by Henry Porter
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Thriller | Series: Paul Samson Spy Thriller Ser.
Heart-stopping international spy thriller from 'An espionage master' (Charles Cumming) starring ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson for fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and John le Carre Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson prefers to work privately these days. He has been tasked with guarding a young woman, Joni Freemantle ...Show more
The Disinvent Movement by Susanna Gendall
$30.00 NZD
$36.01 (16% off)
Category: Fiction Contemporary
Every week we would disinvent something. This week it would be plastic. Next week it would be the aeroplane. I stood outside the supermarket and handed out flyers, which people kindly refused as they left carrying large packs of bottled water.' The short history of the Disinvent Movement is told by its ...Show more
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
In this blinding debut, Robert Jones Jr. blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who ...Show more
Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light returns with a thought-provoking and otherworldly new novel about the fates that we choose for ourselves and what happens when we have the chance to choose again. Dawn Edelstein knows everything there is to know about dying. She specialises i ...Show more
The Interpreter from Java by Alfred Birney
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary
'What a great novel, its language and storytelling so light but also raw and lyrical. A tremendous writer. Read this book' ADRIAAN VAN DIS. Alan Nolan discovers his father's memoirs and learns the truth about the violent man he despised. In this unsparing family history, Alan distils his father's life i ...Show more
The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Crime | Reading Level: near fine
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth. From the top of the wooded bluff, where the rain-slick road had curved so treacherously, down to the swollen river at the base of the cliff, was easily six ...Show more
The Silence of Snow by Eileen Merriman
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A compelling love story about facing one's demons, self-medication and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Almost qualified as an anaesthetic consultant, Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine anaesthetic went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, flas ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Contemporary | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo; Gerald McCann (Illustrator); Norman Nodel (Illustrator)
$16.99 NZD
$27.99 (39% off)
Category: Fiction Classics | Series: Classics Illustrated Vintage Replica Hardcover Ser.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally importa ...Show more
Dark Tides (#2 Fairmile) by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction Historical
Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer, wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to ...Show more
War Lord (#13 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Historical | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser.
THE FINAL BATTLE AWAITS... The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series, coming October 2020. England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea - and only one man stands in their way. Torn between loyalty ...Show more