The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'The writing glows with emotional intelligence. This atmospheric debut...had me sniffing copiously' Daily MailIN WARTIME, SURVIVAL IS AS MUCH ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AS IT IS ABOUT COURAGE...Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight, ...Show more
A Quiet Life by Natasha Walter
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of her husband in 1951, Laura Leverett has been living in limbo with her daughter in Geneva. All others see is her conventional, charming exterior; nobody guesses the secret she is carrying. Her double life began years ago, when ...Show more
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy s ...Show more
Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
London, November 1965. Millions of Londoners are living and working on the fringes of the fashionable West End. Tales of the Moors murders fill the papers. Beyond the glamour of the all-white Carnaby Street scene lie other worlds of Caribbean music, Turkish coffee houses, Soho prostitution and stolen id ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. Named a New York Times 2017 "Books to Breeze Through This Summer" Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.Meet Eleanor Ol ...Show more
Sex, with Animals by Laura Borrowdale
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Love by Illustrated by Lassaad Metoui Rumi - Translated from Persian Jean-Claude Carriere
$35.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
An immortal voice speaks on the greatest poetic theme in this English-language selection of the works of Rumi. Enriched by the lush calligraphic illustrations of Arabic artist Lassaad Metoui, the poems bear remarkable power and emotional intensity, reflecting on the complexities of love, passion, pain, ...Show more
The Ballad of Fifty-one by Bill Sewell
$20.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book Awards, Poetry section. The 1951 Waterfront Lockout is, according to Bill Sewell, "one of the more shameful episodes in New Zealand history." The reason is that the government of the time, under Prime Minister Sidney Holland, set out to destroy the self-assertive ...Show more
Paneta Street by Michael O'Leary
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
DoP November 2008, Welllington 138 x 180mm / 80pp Taking Bob DylanâÂÂs 1975 album Desire as its creative starting point, Michael OâÂÂLearyâÂÂs book contains a mix of new and earlier hard-to-find poems. The first section âÂÂLivinâ ina AucklanâÂÂâ contains most of OâÂÂLearyâ ...Show more
Just Another Fantastic Anthology: Auckland in Poetry by Stu Bagby (ed.)
$29.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Dop 2008, Auckland softcover Editor Stu Bagby has attempted to cover the geological, cultural and historical aspects of the city while keeping a focus on the people;Auckland sprawls between 2 magnificent and quite different coastlines, the biggest Polynesian city in the world. This collection hopefully ...Show more
Goya Rules by Harvey McQueen
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: Fine
McQueen's ability to forge poetry from everyday events and domestic life, with a sharp eye for the observation of the natural world, again comes to the fore in this substantial new collection. McQueen writes with humour and with committed involvement in his life and times. His poems as individual entrie ...Show more
The Friday Poem - 100 New Zealand Poems by Edited by Steve Braunias
$25.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
An anthology of new New Zealand verse, which first appeared in the popular Friday Poem slot in The Spinoff website. It features some of the most well-known and established names in New Zealand poetry as well as new, exciting writers. It is a showcase of New Zealand poetry. It includes hilarious poems a ...Show more