Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special abo ...Show more
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
The top ten Sunday Times bestselling portrait of a marriage Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-ag ...Show more
The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss by Abraham Verghese
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the coun ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
Strange Sally Diamond: Crime Novel of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023 by Liz Nugent
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: near fine
The internationally bestselling author of the "dark, captivating psychological thriller" (People) Lying in Wait returns with a wickedly dark, twisted, and brilliantly observed new novel about an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past. Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerat ...Show more
Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It’s 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners’ hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only f ...Show more
This Pakeha Life - An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more