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The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The Secret Commonwealth (#2 Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The Book of Dust
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage- The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end ...Show more
Aue by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner! of the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father an ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$22.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A universal story of love, friendship, and growing up. At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne ...Show more
Blue Moon (#24 Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Jack Reacher Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child, creator of 'today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of' (Ken Follett). Jack Reacher is a former military cop, trained to notice things. He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC BOOK OF 2020CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM'You have to read Apeirogon' Sunday Times'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM' ...Show more
Expectation by Anna Hope
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' GUARDIAN 'A brilliant exploration offriendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES 'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA What happened to the women we were supposed ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy #3) by Hilary Mantel
$50.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: The Wolf Hall Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies; the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’. England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat ...Show more
Tiny Pieces of Us by Nicky Pellegrino
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
My heart is less than 1% of my body, it weighs hardly anything; it is only a tiny piece of me, yet it is the part everyone finds most interesting. Vivi Palmer knows what it's like to live life carefully. Born with a heart defect, she was given a second chance after a transplant, but has never quite dar ...Show more
Actress by Anne Enright
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Roy's pick From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: Adult
#1 New York Times Bestseller A Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "I can't even express how much I love this book I didn't want this story to end " - Reese Witherspoon "Painfully beautiful." - The New York Times Book Review "Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver." - Bustle For year ...Show more