The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite ...Show more
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel PrizeIn 1916, Sven Ormson leaves Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year, and where he might witness the splendour of the Northern Lights one night or be attacked by a polar bear ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
No Plan B by Lee Child; Andrew Child
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: Jack Reacher 27
The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts. One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he s ...Show more
Kawai: For Such a Time As This by Monty Soutar
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it's never been told before. A young Māori man, compelled to learn the stories of his ancestors, returns to his family marae on the east coast of the North Island to speak to his elderly grand-uncle, the keeper of t ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Modern
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran
$39.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Ceylon's independence from Britain. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing family, against the backdrop of increasing ethnic tension. As the country descends into a bloody civil war, Na ...Show more
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
$37.00 NZD
Category: Modern
An effervescent, punchy, piercingly funny novel exploring the fall of Robert Mugabe from Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating ride. A bold, vivid chorus of animal voices calls out the dangerous absurdity of contemporary global politics, and ...Show more
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
$32.99 NZD
Category: Modern
Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possi ...Show more
A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
'Winman excels in her sweeping prose and her unwavering theme of love in all its forms' Stylist This is a story about Marvellous Ways, an eighty-nine-year-old woman who sits by a creek in Cornwall, waiting for a last adventure. And it's about Francis Drake, a young soldier who washes up there, reeli ...Show more
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry--freed by the Emancipation Proclamation--seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpect ...Show more
The Slowworm's Song by Andrew Miller
$27.99 NZD
Category: Modern
From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father's yearning to atone. A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in Belfast, askin ...Show more