What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Ekkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child's eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equip ...Show more
Godspeed by Nickolas Butler
$33.00 NZD
Category: Crime, Thrillers
Part morality tale, part mystery, a searing story of friendship, family and temptation. 'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.' Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their own small-town construction company, they yearn to ...Show more
Bright Burning Things (PB) by Lisa Harding
$33.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Being Tommy's mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too far from the shore, and Tommy's life is in her hands. Once there was the th ...Show more
Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
‘Deliciously dark, full of simmering menace.' KAREN HAMILTON‘Twisted, compelling, devastating.' SAMANTHA DOWNING‘This is Mean Girls all grown up, with a very dark twist.' ELLE CROFT- A darkly intoxicating novel of female friendship and obsession, perfect for fans of My Dark Vanessa, The Girls and The Vi ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two te ...Show more
Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Crime, Thrillers
The exceptionally twisty - and twisted - new thriller from the master of suspense, Peter Swanson. After a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly-minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb.For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat at a friend's resort off th ...Show more
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER by Maggie O'Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Somewhere a Cleaner - Their voices in poems and prose by Adrienne Jansen et al (eds)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Somewhere a cleaner Poems by cleaners from around New Zealand During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve all been thinking about essential services. Including cleaning. Cleaning is universal. It’s steeped in tradition and culture. It’s essential, it’s ordinary and it’s surprisingly poetic. Somewhere a cleaner ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Modern
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled - on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with ...Show more
The Boyfriend by Laura Southgate
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Erica is 17 and in her last year of high school. Donny is 42 and everywhere in her yoga class, at German Club, in her parents spare room . . . The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man, The Boyfriend is a cautionary tale about blindly accepting ...Show more
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
The debut novel from the author of Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You. A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writ ...Show more