Dune: now a major blockbuster film by Frank Herbert
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science fiction | Series: Dune | Reading Level: very good
Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and widely considered one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe; a d ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernieres
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine ...Show more
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demand ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
The Gentleman From Peru by Andre Aciman
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name. We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves ...Show more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet, The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As th ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling ...Show more
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE THREE-TIME NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES AND MATRIX Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, The Vaster Wilds is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young daugh ...Show more
Why Do Horses Run? by Cameron Stewart
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A lyrical and profound debut novel that celebrates the kindness of strangers and those living in pain who recognise that in others. He walked not feeling he was connected to the earth, but on the edge of something he couldn't reach. He pushed on through mist and darkness and clutched the blanket tight ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. 'A ripper.' The Australian 'Gripping.' Sydney Morning Herald 'Brilliant ...Show more