The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is in meltdown... The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending h ...Show more
The Mathematics of Love by Emma Darwin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
I believe I have just discovered one of my favourite books this year. Two story lines, one set in the early 19th century takes us from the gentle Suffolk countryside to the battlefields of Waterloo and the ports of Spain where we follow and reflect on the life, loves and fortunes of Waterloo veteran and ...Show more
The Thrill of Falling by Witi Ihimaera
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A stunning collection of stories from one of New Zealand's favourite authors. What's new? A young woman utters her favourite mantras to take on the world. An old woman lives like a diva, re - enacting Casablanca. In a rewrite of a play, a singer becomes a rock chick in London. Moby Dick is reincarnated ...Show more
Jamie Trower - Rust Belt by Jamie Trower
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Poetry | Reading Level: new
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo
$14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
He'll get inside your head. You've never seen a killer like this. Neither have the police. And for Detective Harry Hole, this time it's personal. 'Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday Express Two women are missing, their only connection being they attended the sa ...Show more
The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: The Thursday Murder Club | Reading Level: very good
The fourth book in the record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series from British national treasure Richard Osman. Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into a ...Show more
Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly
$14.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller enlists the help of his half-brother, Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband. Defence attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a ...Show more
What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Love can change your life. Can it survive it? Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood i ...Show more
The Longman Literary Companion to Science by Walter Gratzer (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
The Call Of The Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack London
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Of all Jack London's fictions, none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to "The Call of the Wild", the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes "White Fang", and five short stories.
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
$16.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'It is a fine novel ...Show more