One Woman Show by Christine Coulson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Prized, collected, critiqued. One Woman Show revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distils each stage of this sprawling life into exhibition wall labels, every brief ...Show more
Painter to the King by Amy Sackville
$27.99 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of brilliance, imagination, intrigue and style -- about the painter Velazquez and his royal subject and benefactor, King Philip IV of Spain.
Past Lying: The twisty new Karen Pirie thriller, now a major ITV series by Val McDermid
$37.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime. Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh Universit ...Show more
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan
$36.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
A gripping, propulsive and brilliantly original debut by award-winning investigative journalist and writer Louise Milligan. She wonders if they have discovered she is missing yet? Has it broken as a story? Who has been assigned to cover it? Have they started spooling through her social media to pull out ...Show more
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Sometimes I Lie'Not just fiendish but positively Feeneyish - dark, ingenious and very clever' Cara Hunter, author of Close to HomeTen years of marriage.Ten years of secrets.An anniversary they'll never forget.Adam and Amelia are spending the weeke ...Show more
Same As It Ever Was: The immersive and joyful new novel from the author of Reese s Bookclub pick THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD by Claire Lombardo
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Witty and insightful. A powerful exploration of marriage, motherhood, and self' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in ChemistryThe author of THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD returns with a brilliantly observed family drama, in which a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present At f ...Show more
Sandwich by CATHERINE NEWMAN
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected punch about being 'sandwiched' between growing children and ageing parents and the power of change. 'Sandwich is joy in book ...Show more
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman ...Show more
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Martin Scarsden Ser.
Winner of the New Blood Dagger Award In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller.In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young ...Show more
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
One night. One fateful choice. A constellation of lives changed forever. On a summer night in 1985, the lives of three teenagers are shattered by a horrific car crash in which a young woman is killed next to the sprawling oak tree that marks the perimeter of 18 Division Street. For the Wilfs, it will be ...Show more
Small Hours by Bobby Palmer
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg. If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden...You'd see a father and son, a fox standing between them. You wouldn't know that Jack has returned ...Show more
So Shall You Reap by Donna Leon
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
The latest instalment from Donna Leon sees Brunetti engaged in a case that forces him to confront his past On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's can ...Show more