The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title story, The Grandmothers, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and th ...Show more
Alchemy by Maureen Duffy
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Jade Green is a solicitor with her own practice, Lost Causes, that she runs from her London flat. She struggles to keep her business afloat, and supplements her income by delivering for the local Chinese takeaway. Her life changes with a single phonecall. Dr Gilbert has been dismissed from his post teac ...Show more
Past Secrets by Cathy Kelly
34.99 NZD
Category: General fiction
This is the new novel from the Number 1 bestselling author of "Always and Forever" and "Best of Friends". Keep a secret too long and it will creep out when you least expect it! Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of se ...Show more
The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien; Douglas A. Anderson (Editor)
45.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The definitive edition of this beloved children's classic, featuring a wealth of accompanying illustrations and notes which take the reader further into both the story, and the tale of how it was written. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, The Hobbit. Sin ...Show more
The Torment of Others by Val McDermid
32.00 NZD
34.95 (8% off)
Category: General fiction
The Women's Bookshop says: When the murder of a prostitute matches a series of killings whose perpetrator has already been put away, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan turns to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for help.
Gone With the Windsors by Laurie Graham
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
This is the hilarious and touching novel from Laurie Graham - the fictional diary of the Queen's best friend in pre-war London. Laurie Graham's brilliant novel is the fictional diary of Maybell Brumby, a wealthy American widow who arrives in London in 1932 and discovers that an old school friend is i ...Show more
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
22.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning.
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great ...Show more
Unless by Carol Shields
23.00 NZD
23.99 (4% off)
Category: General fiction
I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life, 44 year old ...Show more
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
22.00 NZD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: General fiction
Ella Turner does her best to fit in to the small, close-knit community of Lisle-sur-Tarn. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high school French. In vain. Isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry.
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
22.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn - some might say ridiculously large - and the other, almost leaning over the first, an angel - some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting the cemetery to view t ...Show more
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
22.00 NZD
25.00 (12% off)
Category: General fiction
Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance Portrait in Sepia is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, two of Allende's most ...Show more