The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Mystery of the Blue Train (Poirot #6) by Agatha Christie
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller | Series: Poirot
The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice...When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition ...Show more
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious, Post Office is a landmark in American literature. The new edition is augmented with an anecdotal introduction b ...Show more
The Hand of Glodd (#1 Tarquin the Honest) by Gareth Ward
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Tarquin the Honest, Wizard of the Silver Weasel, is a liar, a coward, a charlatan and a cheat. And, according to his diminutive roguish sidekick Lunar Nix, those are his most endearing qualities. On a perilous quest to recover The Golden Gauntlet for a mysterious patron, Tarquin and his band of unlikel ...Show more
The Fellowship of the Ring (Special unjacketed hardback edition) by J R R Tolkien
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: The\Lord of the Rings Ser.
THE FIRST PART OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S EPIC MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGSIn a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave ...Show more
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
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
Shy by Max Porter
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
From the best-selling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny - the polyphonic story of a troubled teenager, with all of the humanity and trademark invention we expect from one of our most exciting writers. Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables ...Show more
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha by Witi Ihimaera (Editor); Michelle Elvy (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Series: 1st
Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole ...Show more
The Albatross by Nina Wan
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Primrose Li is torn - between her past and her present, her first love and her current love, duty and desire, fear and freedom. One day, as she's almost come apart at the seams, she takes an unexpected detour to her local golf course. Slowly, this sport - which she is terrible at - becomes her meditatio ...Show more
Ancestry by Simon Mawer
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Historical
This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material Mawer has picked through the traces left behind by h ...Show more
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Meet the happy couple. Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year's time. The best man, Archie, is meant to want to move up the corporate ladder and on from his love for Luke; yet he stands where he is, admiring the view. The bridesmaid, Phoebe, Celine's sis ...Show more
The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Crime/Thriller
Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet.'As ever with Grisham there are corkscrew twists and turns as he ratchets up the suspense. It is exceptional story-telling, which leaves the reader begging for the novel never to end. Grisham has sold more ...Show more