Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize 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.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
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
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
$39.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...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
Giovanni's Room (Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he ...Show more
The Grimmelings by Rachael King
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction
The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a curse on the same day, even in jest. When the boy she has cursed goes missing, in the same ...Show more
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
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
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
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
A powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinan and an Israeli. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i ...Show more
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: good-very good
RUNNER UP PULITZER PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS A New York Times Top Ten Best Book of 2018 'I loved this book' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to p ...Show more
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the ser ...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