The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
$29.00 NZD
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Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 2009 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'A tremendously vital book in every sense.' - Sunday Times At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but the slap reverberates through th ...Show more
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
$28.00 NZD
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Category: Fiction - general | Series: Heaven Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A hardcover gift edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, now with a teaser chapter of its long-awaited sequel, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven."All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time..." Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life ...Show more
When God was a Rabbit: From the bestselling author of STILL LIFE by Sarah Winman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Sarah Winman's bestselling, critically-acclaimed debut novel WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT continues to captivate and enchant readers. 1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly's world is shaped by those w ...Show more
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
'What would you do if you found a letter in the attic, addressed to you, from your husband - to be opened in the event of his death? Another masterclass from the author of Big Little Lies' GRAZIA _______________ Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Writt ...Show more
Twilight: Twilight, Book 1 by Stephenie Meyer
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Twilight Saga | Reading Level: very good
About three things I was absolutely positive: First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn't know how dominant that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. "I'D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE- I' ...Show more
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the w ...Show more
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
$15.00 NZD
$27.00 (44% off)
Category: Fiction - general
'I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine'. Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has taken the trip of a lifetime: to E ...Show more
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Isobel Dalhousie Novels
Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is...well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly w ...Show more
Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers (#9 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser.
It's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his 7th birthday for so long he's now longing to be 18. But there's a lot of living to do and Bertie isn't alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that - with mixed fortunes.
Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street) by Alexander McCall Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: 44 Scotland Street Ser. | Reading Level: very good
44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 8 The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy--just ask his mother. From social media to the finer poin ...Show more
Pure by Andrew Miller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very bre ...Show more
Astray by Emma Donoghue
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Counterfeiter. Dishwasher. Prostitute. Attorney. Sculptor. Mercenary. Elephant. Corpse. The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's latest fact-inspired fictions have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters. They cross other borders, too: those of race, law, ...Show more