Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
Butcherbird by Cassie Hart
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Something is drawing Jena Benedict's family to darkness. Her mother, father, brother and baby sister are killed in a barn fire, and Grandmother Rose banishes Jena from the farm. Now, twenty years on Rose is dying, and Jena returns home with her boyfriend Cade in tow. Jena wants answers about why she was ...Show more
You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Two Friends Ten Summer Trips Their Last Chance to Fall in Love 12 Summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 Summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every ye ...Show more
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 13
The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine - from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about ...Show more
Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt (#8 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
30.00 NZD
38.00 (21% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: The Seven Sisters
Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion. 1928, Paris: A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. ...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
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
The Thursday Murder Club: (#1 Thursday Murder Club) by Richard Osman
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club 1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might b ...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
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
35.00 NZD
Category: 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
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Tales from the Café (Before The Coffee Gets Cold #2) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: near fine
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more