Neapolitan Chronicles by Ana Maria Ortese; Ann Goldstein (Translator); Jenny McPhee (Translator)
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"A major inspiration for Elena Ferrante."--The New York TimesA riveting classic of European literature, this superb collection of fiction and reportage is set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis--Naples--in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These writings helped inspire Elena Ferran ...Show more
Beneath Pale Water by Thalia Henry
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Near Fine
Set amidst the physical and psychological landscapes of New Zealand's southern hills and grasslands, Beneath Pale Water is a social realist and expressionistic novel that follows a triangle of three damaged individuals - a sculptor, a vagrant and a model - who have grown calcified shells against the wor ...Show more
The Trip of a Lifetime by Monica McInerney
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'I always thought memories were unchangeable. Set in stone, shaped by the years. But there are always others too, ones you haven't let yourself remember . . . ' The wilful and eccentric Lola Quinlan is off on the trip of a lifetime, taking her beloved granddaughter and great-granddaughter with her. More ...Show more
The Year's Best Science Fiction - Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois
37.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Year's Best Science Fiction Ser.
The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the ...Show more
Cat Flap by Alan Cowell
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When the cat's away, the mice will play - but who will oversee the cat? When Dolores Tremayne, a successful business executive, travels overseas, part of her remains mysteriously behind in X, the family's indoor cat. Through feline eyes, Dolores witnesses the shocking behavior of her errant husband, the ...Show more
The Distance Home by Paula Saunders
24.99 NZD
34.99 (28% off)
Category: General Fiction
" Paula] Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others. . . . A mediation of the violence of American ambition."--The New York Times Book Review "A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family" (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, an ...Show more
The Last Laugh: A Novel by Lynn Freed
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year.At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and ...Show more
Wild Fire (Shetland series #8) by Ann Cleeves
29.99 NZD
Category: Crime | Series: Shetland Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The eighth captivating and final book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series - also a major BBC One drama starring Douglas Henshall as Jimmy Perez.Shetland: Welcoming. Wild. Remote.Drawn in by the reputation of the islands, a new English family move to the area, eager to give their autistic son a b ...Show more
The Honourable Thief (Benedict Hitchens #1) by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Benedict Hitchens
'Achilles? Because...?' 'Obsession of mine. Half man, half god - and his own worst enemy. My kind of man.' He laughed. Istanbul, Turkey 1955 Benedict Hitchens, once a world-renowned archaeologist, is now a discredited - but still rather charming - shell of his former self. Once full of optimism and adve ...Show more
A Bird in the Hand (#1 George and Molly Palmer-Jones) by Ann Cleeves
19.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1986, A Bird in the Hand announced Ann Cleeves, now the bestselling author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope series, as a brilliant new voice in contemporary crime fiction.Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport?Young Tom French has been found dead in a marsh ...Show more
Borne (#1) by Jeff VanderMeer
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland. 'Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore'. In a ruined city of the future, Rachel scavenges a strange cr ...Show more
Jennie [Essential Modern Classics] by Paul Gallico
16.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: 10-13
If in doubt, wash! What is it like to be a cat? Peter Brown longs for a pet cat. One day, he is following a stray cat through the streets when he is knocked down and seriously hurt. On waking, he is astonished to find that he has turned into a cat The world is a dangerous place for him, but luckily he i ...Show more