How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
$37.00 NZD
Category: Irish
A deeply moving novel about a boy and his dream, from the prize-winning author of As You Were. Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there ar ...Show more
The Slowworm's Song by Andrew Miller
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father's yearning to atone. A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in Belfast, askin ...Show more
The Yellow Bird Sings (TPB) by Jennifer Rosner
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A mother. A child. An impossible choice. Poland, 1941. After the Jews in their town are rounded up, Róza and her five-year-old daughter, Shira, spend day and night hidden in a farmer’s barn. Forbidden from making a sound, only the yellow bird from her mother’s stories can sing the melodies Shira compose ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
$35.00 NZD
Category: Irish
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ha ...Show more
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan
$22.99 NZD
Category: Irish
An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' - The Times 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' - Hilary Mantel 'Claire Keegan makes her ...Show more
A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty
$36.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The latest from the writer of BBC smash hit drama Crossfire, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise Doughty 'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' - HILARY MANTEL 'Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.' - The Times Bird is ...Show more
The Captive Wife (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Kidman
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened s ...Show more
She's a Killer by Kirsten McDougall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime, Thrillers
The world’s climate is in crisis and New Zealand is being divided and reshaped by privileged immigrant wealthugees. Thirty-something Alice has a near-genius IQ and lives at home with her mother with whom she communicates by Morse code. Alice’s imaginary friend, Simp, has shown up, with a running comment ...Show more
Isobar Precinct by Angelique Kasmara
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sci Fi, Fantasy
Who would you go back for? Lestari Aris is a woman on the edge. Her tattoo studio on Karangahape Road is hammered by burglaries; the hangers-on in her life, from a teenage runaway to a married cop, are bonded to her for reasons she can’t fathom. And years after Lestari’s father disappeared, her Indonesi ...Show more
Dubliners by JOYCE JAMES
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners" by James Joyce. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears...But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, ...Show more
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ... 'I loved this book' Jojo Moyes This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam c ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
$39.99 NZD
Category: Modern
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every gener ...Show more