The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
Dice by Claire Baylis
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been commit ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more
Going Zero by Anthony McCarten
$38.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
TWO HOURS TO VANISH Ten people have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter, FUSION can track anyone wherever they are on earth. But does it work? ONE CHANCE TO ESCAPE Each participant is given two hours to 'Go Zero' – to go off-gri ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$28.00 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
$27.00 NZD
Category: General
Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer - now an instant Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Women''s Prize. ''Sorrow and Bliss is a brilliantly faceted and extre ...Show more
Go as a River by Shelley Read
$37.00 NZD
Category: General
For fans of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE and THE PAPER PALACE- lush, immersive, soaring tale of a young woman's journey to becoming, of love and loss, home and resilience, and finding those where least expected, and a breathtaking exploration of our connection to nature. On a cool autumn mornin ...Show more
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you will adore Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts. 'Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts plunges the reader into the gru ...Show more
Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler
$37.00 NZD
Category: General
Power. History. Love. Hate. Vengeance.She will be Queen. Whatever it takes... Daughter of an ousted king, descendant of ancient druids, as a child it is prophesied that one day Gruoch will be queen of Alba. When she is betrothed to Duncan, heir elect, this appears to confirm the prophecy. She leaves be ...Show more
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