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
Ralph Hotere - The Dark is Light Enough - A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O'Sullivan
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Vincent O'Sullivan's compelling, nuanced portrait of the great New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere brings the man and his art to life. Ralph Hotere (Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa; 1931-2013) was one of Aotearoa's most significant modern artists. Hotere invited the poet, novelist and biographer Vincent O'Sullivan ...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
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Napolitano comes a rich, life-affirming, and heartbreaking novel about sisterhood, family, love, and growing up Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the e ...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
Fourth Wing: The Empyrean Bk 1 by Rebecca Yarros
$39.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy & SciFi | Series: The Empyrean Ser.
Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last... Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general-also known as her toug ...Show more
Fourth Wing: The Empyrean Bk 1 by Rebecca Yarros
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy & SciFi | Series: The\Empyrean Ser.
An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book "Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy." --Booklist, starred review "Fourth Wing will have your heart poundin ...Show more
Go as a River by Shelley Read
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
An epic story of self-discovery and becoming, set against the magnificent and breathtaking landscape of mid-century Colorado. When a moment changes everything, how do you live the rest of your life? GO AS A RIVER is the powerful and emotional Sunday Times bestselling novel which you'll never forget. ___ ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC BETWEEN TWO COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME'Sheer joy' Graham Norton'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie'A bear-hug of a book' Rachel Joyce, author of Miss Benson's Beetle From the author of ...Show more
Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Ca ...Show more
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten ye ...Show more