The Night Manager by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
To catch a criminal, he must become one Jonathan Pine, night manager of a luxury Swiss hotel, has a secret. He knows that the guest he awaits, billionaire trader Richard Roper, is 'the worst man in the world.' And he knows why. Pine will do whatever it takes to help the Intelligence services bring Rope ...Show more
The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A missing plane resurfaces - and so do long-submerged secrets... An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake over twenty years later - complete with the skeletal remains of the pilot and a strange cargo of rubble. Why are the Soviet ...Show more
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series 'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting a prime minister. Such bourgeois horseplay is not contemplated. Our operation must be delicate, refined and aimed at the heart of the Intelligence ...Show more
Remarkably Bright Creatures: Curl up with 'that octopus book' everyone is talking about by Shelby Van Pelt
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 'Full of heart and humour . . . I loved it.' Ruth Hogan 'Will stay with you for a long time.' Anstey Harris 'I defy you to put it down once you've started' Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the n ...Show more
Secret Life of Luke Livingstone by Charity Norman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Luke Livingstone is a lucky man. He's a father and grandfather, a respected solicitor, a pillar of the community. He has a loving wife in Eilish, children who adore him and an idyllic home in the Oxfordshire countryside. But Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret, one that is close to destroying h ...Show more
Rosalind by Jessica Mills
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Excellent'The Times'One of the best novels I have read this year'Iris Costello'A luminous, pin-sharp portrait of a true trailblazer'Zoe Howe Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman's work remai ...Show more
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine
The Bone People is a love story. It begins when a mute six-year-old, full of blasting hurt and strange charm, wanders off the beach and into the home of a despairing artist. Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori fo ...Show more
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
The complete classic stories by New Zealand's most famous writer. Unlike many selected editions, this is a complete collection of all 75 of Katherine Mansfield's finished stories taken from her five books: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Doves' Nest, Something Childish and In a German Pension. Virginia Woo ...Show more
The Misplaced Affections of Charlotte Fforbes by Catherine Robertson
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
When Charlotte Fforbes inadvertently falls in love with her boss, her usual cool self-control is tested to its limit. Thus far, Charlotte has carefully avoided love's emotional tar pit, but suddenly she is in it up to her neck. Her first strategy is to ignore it - for one thing, boss Patrick is a husban ...Show more
Wahine: A Novel by Kerry Harrison
$34.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In 2009, a mysterious figure in an Auckland resthome, where an old woman is dying, triggers memories of the Wahine storm of 1968 and its aftermath. After the disapearance of her father Snow in the storm, fifteen-year old, Jude Farley is deposited in a Taranaki boarding school so her mother Kit can escap ...Show more
Frederick's Coat by Alan Duff
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: Very Good
From the author of the best-selling Once Were Warriors, a powerful story of love between father and son, of contrasting ways of looking at the world and of revenge. When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in so ...Show more
The Mannequin Makers by Craig Cliff
$37.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
From the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book, this strikingly original novel is at turns a gothic tale of a father's obsession, a castaway story worthy of a Boy's Own adventure and a thorny remembrance of past tragedies. The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if ...Show more