Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'We don't have secrets, Sheba and I'From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an il ...Show more
According to Yes by Dawn French
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To Yes. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It's a code strictly adhered t ...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
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
The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times 'An irresistible summer read' Guardian Book of the Day 'A typically sharp and hugely satisfying page-turner' Daily Mail 'Such a skilful story-teller, who vividly dramatizes our lives with wit, wis ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: good
"Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the ...Show more
Liberation Day by George Saunders
33.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner. George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world The 'best sh ...Show more
Kala by Colin Walsh
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They- ...Show more
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
A sparkling debut novel from Australian Mikki Brammer, which reminds us all to live our best life with fewer regrets. In her work as a 'death doula', Clover Brooks ushers people peacefully through their last days, collecting their final words into three notebooks - ADVICE, CONFESSIONS and REGRETS. But ...Show more
Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where she's really from. Her family has lived in Aotearoa New Zealand for four generations, and she's ambivalent at bes ...Show more
The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller. A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn ...Show more
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'A stunning fever dream of a story that feels completely real - don't miss this fantastic thriller debut.' LEE CHILD If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a ...Show more