A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent: She doesn't understand either of her teenage kids, which as a child psychologist, is fairly embarrassing. She has become entirely grey. Inside, and ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the worl ...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
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Claw of Attraction by David Michie
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The Dalai Lama's Cat returns in the latest instalment of the series by bestselling local author, David Michie The Dalai Lama regarded their flushed, animated faces, his forehead wrinkling. "The materialist approach," he nodded. "Seeking to change what you believe to be entirely outside you. It has many ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
16.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
40.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace. May 2021. London. Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer t ...Show more