A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
This first novel by Dawn French is told through the eyes of a mother and her two teenage children. There's seventeen-year-old Dora, a stroppy teenager who's just come out of her first relationship (it lasted a whole six weeks) and who's longing to escape to university; her long-suffering mother, Mo, a c ...Show more
Wool by Hugh Howey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
An epic story of life, love and survival at all odds and one of the most-talked and anticipated books of the year. In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
He was Australia's most wanted man. Now he's written Australia's most wanted novel. Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts. In 1978 Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment as punishment for a series of robberies of building-society branches, credit unio ...Show more
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Kingkiller Chronicle
Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the second installment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. Picking up the tale of Kvothe Kingkiller once again, we follow him into exile, into policital intrigue, courtship, adventure, love and magic...and further ...Show more
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier; Ravi Mirchandani (Editor); Sarah Castleton (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe's biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Li ...Show more
Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
This sweeping, powerful epic tells the story of one of the bloodiest years in Rome's history through the eyes of two remarkable women fighting for survival A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of the Four Emperors will change everything - especially the lives of two sisters with a ve ...Show more
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good
'A literary masterpiece . . . at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny . . . it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, ...Show more
Micro by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking ...Show more
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all ...Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of ...Show more
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And y ...Show more
The Double Comfort Safari Club (No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #11) by Alexander McCall Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 11 | Reading Level: good-very good
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe--with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi--navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, goo ...Show more
All Change (#5 The Cazalet Chronicles) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$38.00 NZD
$40.00 (5% off)
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Cazalet Chronicles #5
This is the final book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her the last remnants of a world - of great houses and servants, of class and tradition - in which the Cazalets hav ...Show more