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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here. 'Full of wisdom and kindness. It is just the kind of book I adore' JOANNA CANNON 'Touching and honest and funny. I completely and wholeheartedly fell for Lenni and Margot' NINA POTTELL Life is short - no one knows that bet ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An instant New York Times Bestseller! Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. "A lyrical w ...Show more
Troy by Stephen Fry
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: near fine
Following Top Ten bestsellers Mythos and Heroes, this third volume retells the epic tale of Troy 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 whol ...Show more
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of stat ...Show more
The Hidden Girls by Rebecca Whitney
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
How does the saying go? Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you . . . For Ruth, a new mother recovering from postpartum psychosis, every day is difficult and, after months spent hearing voices in the walls and trusting no one, she’s no longer confident in her own judgeme ...Show more
American Dirt (PB) by Jeanine Cummins
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Breathtaking... I haven't been so entirely consumed by a book for years' Telegraph 'I couldn't put it down. I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE. Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the unforgettable story of a mother and son's ...Show more
The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'I want you to remember something, Nat. You're small on the outside. But inside you're as big as everyone else. You show people that and you won't go far wrong in life.' A compelling story perfect for fans of The Doll Factory, The Illumination of Ursula Flight and The Familiars. My name is Nat Dav ...Show more
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. Viewing an apartment normal ...Show more
