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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 ...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
Aue by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Winner! of the Ockham NZ Book Awards - Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and ...Show more
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s ...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
Not That I'd Kiss a Girl by Lil O'Brien
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
A heartbreaking and hilarious true story of coming out as gay in New Zealand. Lil O'Brien accidentally outed herself to her parents at the age of nineteen when they overheard her talking to a friend about liking girls. Half an hour later she found herself on the side of the road, with instructions to co ...Show more
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster's household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Meanwhile, Mussolini's hundred ...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
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'You have to read Apeirogon' Sunday Times 'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 'An essential hymn to peace and forgiveness' independent.co.uk The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live ...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
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