This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
*A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 **AN OPRAH DAILY MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024**AN OBSERVER 2024 PICK**A GUARDIAN 2024 PICK* 'One of those rare novels which a reader doesn't merely read but lives through with the characters . . . Claire Messud is a magnificent storyteller' Yiyun Li June ...Show more
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever. England must fall.In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering 'expats' from across history to test th ...Show more
Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson
$37.00 NZD
Category: General
The haunting debut novel from beloved, Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinéad Gleeson. The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? On a wild and rugged island cut off and isolated to some, artist Nell feels the island is her home. It is the source o ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$37.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been runn ...Show more
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
$40.00 NZD
Category: General
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith and medicine, set in Kerala, South India. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every gener ...Show more
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story by Sophie Elmhirst
$45.00 NZD
Category: General
'One of those very special books that makes you put everything on hold so you can get back to it' RACHEL JOYCE'Beautiful, moving and genuinely unputdownable' JOANNA CANNON'Easily one of the most captivating works of narrative nonfiction I've ever read' OLIVER BURKEMANWhat begins as an eccentric English ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
You Are Here by David Nicholls
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells ...Show more
Earth by John Boyne
$35.00 NZD
Category: General
It's the tabloid sensation of the year - two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, h ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$28.00 NZD
Category: General
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy an ...Show more
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
$38.00 NZD
Category: General
The hotly anticipated second novel from Terry Hayes, author of the internationally bestselling I am Pilgrim If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again - by whatever means necessary. ...Show more