How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Midnight Library and The Humans. HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-yearold history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the So ...Show more
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involunta ...Show more
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A soaring, breathtakingly ambitious novel that weaves together the astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the modern-day Hollywood actress who plays her on screen. From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of ...Show more
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues. Violette's routine is disr ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more