End of Story by A J Finn
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The brand new edge-of-your-seat thriller from the author of the smash hit bestseller The Woman in the Window. "I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." This is the chilling invitation from Sebastian Trapp, renowned mystery novelist, to his long-time correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in d ...Show more
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles...San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change ...Show more
Take Two by Danielle Hawkins
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Sometimes, you have to revisit your past to find your future. Laura and Doug were together for ages. Their breakup was just one of those things - she wanted children, he didn't, no hard feelings - at least not until, with their relationship barely cold in its grave, he got his new girlfriend pregnant. ...Show more
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
$50.00 NZD
Category: Ockham NZ Book Awards Finalists
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Ockham NZ Book Awards Finalists
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
Cuddy [Winner of the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize] by Benjamin Myers
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
**Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023** **Chosen as a book of the year 2023 by The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and New Statesman** 'An epic the north has long deserved' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A sensational piece of storytelling - A singular and significant achievement' GUARDIAN 'Marvellous, artful, enchanted' ...Show more
My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant ca ...Show more
A Bookshop in Berlin - One Womans Flight from the Nazis by Françoise Frenkel
$33.00 NZD
Category: Bookshop Novels
In 1921, Franoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - opens Berlin's first French bookshop. It is a dream come true. The bookshop attracts artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. It brings Franoise peace, friendship and prosperity. Then, in the summer of 1939, the dream ends and Franoise begins ...Show more
In Love by Alfred Hayes
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New YorkIn a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a lonely divorcee; of how one night she was offered one thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betra ...Show more
Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: An\American Classic Ser.
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. ...Show more
Parisian Days by Banine; Anne Thompson-Ahmadova (Translator)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten." -- Evening Standard A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle to realize her dreams of "freedom and fantasy" in 1920s Paris, appearing in ...Show more
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of ...Show more