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The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved i ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATE ...Show more
Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
A riotous novel about sex and money set in the electric world of Soho, featuring a group of sex workers, a billionaire Russian oligarch, a nearly over-the-hill actor, junkie vagabonds, a once far-right extremist and a very glamorous borzoi Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London tha ...Show more
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to be an immigrant' Patricia Engel 'Dominicana is beautiful, engaging, and cuts right to the heart of what it is to be a dutiful young female from a poor country who is bright in every ...Show more
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. A girl comes of age against the knife.' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white m ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Know Your Place by Golriz Ghahraman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
The story of a child refugee who faced her fears, found her home and accidentally made history When she was just nine, Golriz Ghahraman and her parents were forced to flee their home in Iran. After a terrifying and uncertain journey, they landed in Auckland where they were able to seek asylum and - ult ...Show more
The Pull of the Stars (PB) by Emma Donoghue
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
From the international bestselling author of Room. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two o ...Show more
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
With the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, and the atmospheric suspense of The Girls: a compulsive debut novel about that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town. Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . It's February 1976, an ...Show more
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
The extraordinary new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Station Eleven. Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction.
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
