Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
In the Time of the Manaroans by Miro Bilbrough
$40.00 NZD
Category: Bay Hill Bookclub
At fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural-hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre-industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of ...Show more
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightne ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: The\Ngaio Marsh Collection
One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech â and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction â packed inside one of her very own bales of wool and very, very dead . ...Show more
The Friday Poem - 100 New Zealand Poems by Edited by Steve Braunias
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
An anthology of new New Zealand verse, which first appeared in the popular Friday Poem slot in The Spinoff website. It features some of the most well-known and established names in New Zealand poetry as well as new, exciting writers. It is a showcase of New Zealand poetry. It includes hilarious poems a ...Show more
The Swimmers by Chloe Lane
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter. 'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, resonate, fiercely candid, and ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$38.00 NZD
Category: Booker 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 abandoned by her philandering husb ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$22.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her ...Show more
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Aaron Falk 2
From the international bestselling author of The Dry and The Lost Man. Lost, Cold, Desperate ... Danger Runs Deep Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side.The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the off ...Show more
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Lonesome Dove Ser.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the las ...Show more