Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
38.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Others Were Emeralds by Lang Leav
37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory. Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality. This is the part in the story where someone I love would only appear again in flashbacks. The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai gr ...Show more
How (Not) to Have an Arranged Marriage by Amir Khan
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
<b>He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother). From Dr Amir Khan, How (Not) To Have an Arranged Marriage is a timely, heartfelt novel which looks at all aspects of modern arranged marriages.</b> Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents, overshadowing his younger sis ...Show more
The Seasonwife by Saige England
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It's 1832 on an isolated coast on the South Island of New Zealand. A lush and tranquil bay is facing a season of upheaval. White men are whaling, sealing, whoring and warring. Creatures are culled, woods are felled. But something more sinister is afoot. There is much demand amongst the English gentry f ...Show more
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, aging and the strangeness of contemporary life - from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The Book of GooseA grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. A professor develops a troubled intimacy ...Show more
Night Train to Marrakech (#3 Daughters of War) by Dinah Jefferies
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The\Daughters of War Ser.
The final book in the sweeping new historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author. In 1960s Marrakech a young girl travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps on to the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption deca ...Show more
The Exchange: After The Firm - The biggest Grisham in over a decade by John Grisham
38.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller
Sequel to The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert and Locke and fled the country? It is now fifteen years after The Firm and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. W ...Show more
Cleaner by Brandi Wells
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
'I clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They need so much help.' At night, in a corporate office block in an unnamed metropolitan city, a cleaner begins her shift. As she cleans Sad Intern's desk, she throws away some of her more al ...Show more
To the Lighthouse (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Virginia Woolf
35.00 NZD
Category: Graphic novels | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, featuring a new foreword by Patricia LockwoodA Penguin Vitae EditionThe serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivia ...Show more
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a full collection of short stories to delight, intrigue and surprise! One of the world's great storytellers conjures a captivating new book. In this first full collection since Not the End of the World, we meet a queen who ...Show more
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (#7 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) by Karin Smirnoff
38.00 NZD
Category: Mystery/Thriller | Series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A chilling new Dragon Tattoo thriller. The untapped natural resources of Sweden's far north are sparking a gold rush, with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it's not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. Her niece's mother is the latest woman in ...Show more
Vincent and Sien by Silvia Kwon
38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, ...Show more