Foster by Claire Keegan
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her fa ...Show more
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Napolitano comes a rich, life-affirming, and heartbreaking novel about sisterhood, family, love, and growing up Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the e ...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
Small Things Like These (HB) by Claire Keegan
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces i ...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
Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and spac ...Show more
All That I Am by Anna Funder
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by shameless delusion and deceit. At 11:34 a.m. one ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more