Amma by Saraid de Silva
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more
My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
The electrifying new novel from the winner of the International Booker Prize and sensational bestseller - a daring and unflinching account of loss, loneliness and the cost of survival. I heard you laughing from time to time and you stayed lying there on the flattened hay, and after you left, your body' ...Show more
Darkness Runs Deep by Claire McNeel
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
In the darkest hour, a blood-soaked teenager flees the rural Gerandaroo football oval. Eight months later, Bess, a young teacher, returns home to Gerandaroo. A childhood game of dare with her former best friend forces Bess to form a women's footy team to play against Denby, a rival town. Bess reluctant ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood... This is an excellent novel' The Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we ...Show more
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
She's human in every way that matters. Annie is a robot, created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Playful and eager to please, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his whims. Maybe the apartment isn't always ...Show more
Home Front by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war. Kristin Hannah's Home Front is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honour, loss, forgiveness - and the elusive nature of love.From a distance, Michael and Jolen Zarkades seem to ha ...Show more
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the Number One multi-million copy international bestselling author of THE FOUR WINDS and THE NIGHTINGALE. Winter Garden is a haunting and compelling novel illuminating the intricacy of mother-daughter bonds and the enduring links between past and present.Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different a ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER 2023 A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ir ...Show more
Wild by Kristin Hannah
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope and the promise of new beginnings.In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olymp ...Show more
Bird Life by Anna Smaill
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Bird Life, the second novel by Booker Prize-longlisted author Anna Smaill, is a lyrical and ambitious exploration of madness and what it is like to experience the world differently. In Ueno Park, Toyko, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter, and ...Show more