Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Birnam Wood is on the move… A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. Bu ...Show more
Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From Jeannette Walls, the bestselling author of The Glass Castle, a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small ...Show more
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal Quartet'A story is never an answer. A story is always a question.'Here we are in extraordinary times.Is this history?What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other?What have we lost?Wha ...Show more
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground, a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for readers of Never Let Me Go and Leave the World Behind Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her care ...Show more
Boulder by Eva Baltasar
33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportu ...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
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
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
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
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
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
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius —his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only ...Show more