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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
$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
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 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, an ...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
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
$24.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of.The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated.He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began.Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine.Could live underwater two minut ...Show more
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove #3) by Larry McMurtry
$30.00 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
The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia; Euan Cameron (Translator); James Roxburgh (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a huge, exhilarating whirlwind of first love, radical art, colonial war, progressive politics, Chuck Berry and chain-smoking intellectuals. Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader ...Show more
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel wh ...Show more
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead takes place in a remote Polish village, where Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, she becomes involved in the investigation. Dus ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Hachette Essentials) by David Sedaris
$20.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: HACHETTE ESSENTIALS
A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,' New York Times bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt) Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is caus ...Show more
The New Animals by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember. For them, there's nothing new under the sun. They're Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. They've come from nowhere, but with their monied families behind them they'r ...Show more
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, Hamnet is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play. TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to ...Show more
