True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Stories: The Collected Short Fiction by Helen Garner
26.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life-are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner?s mastery of the form.
The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman
24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
It is Christmas Eve and a father and son are meeting for the first time in years. The father has a story he needs to share before it's too late. As he tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away, he reveals even more about himself; his triumphs in business, his ...Show more
The Fragments by Toni Jordan
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things- a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book-and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers.Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is waiting in li ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'COE IS AMONG THE HANDFUL OF NOVELISTS WHO CAN TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEMPER OF OUR TIMES' OBSERVER 'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been rep ...Show more
Heaven Sent (#4 Cato Kwong) by Alan Carter
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime | Series: Cato Kwong
But contentment is not compatible with life in the Job, and soon a series of murders of Fremantle's homeless people gets in the way of Cato's newfound bliss. As New Wavejournalist Norman Lip flirts online with the killer, it becomes apparent that these murders are personal - the every death is bringing ...Show more
Down to the Woods by M. J. Arlidge
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime | Series: A\Helen Grace Thriller Ser.
There is a sickness in the forest. First, it was the wild horses. Now it's innocent men and women, hunted down and murdered by a faceless figure. Lost in the darkness, they try to flee, they try to hide. In desperation, they call out for help. But there is no-one to hear their cries here... DI Helen ...Show more
The Wych Elm by Tana French
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime
For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything on the other luminous and untouchable. One night changes everything for Toby. A brutal attack le ...Show more
The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a playground just outside Copenhagen a woman is found dead with one hand cut off. A small chestnut figure hangs over her. Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are sent to investigate but they soon discover another woman has been brutally murdered. This time both her hands have been cut off. And the chestnut fig ...Show more
The Pearl Thief by Fiona McIntosh
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious, her cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a desperately damaged wo ...Show more
Heroes by Stephen Fry
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Mortals and Monsters Quests and Adventures Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fl ...Show more
Sea of Greed (Numa File #16) by Clive Cussler; Graham Brown
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? Sea of Greedis the suspenseful new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.After ...Show more