Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Abdel Latif, an old man, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. Before he dies, he tells his youngest son Bolbol that his final wish is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya in the Aleppo region. Though Abdel Latif was not the ideal father, and though Bolbol is es ...Show more
Islands by Peggy Frew
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm. There was a house on a hill in the city and it was full of us, our family, but then it began to empty. We fell out. We made a mess. We draped ourselves in blame and disappointment and lurched around, bumping into each o ...Show more
The Lion Rampant (Birth of the Plantagenets #2) by Blanche D'alpuget
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: birth of the plantagenets series
The second book in the captivating Birth of the Plantagenets series brings the twelfth-century reign of Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine to vivid life, from bestselling author Blanche d'Alpuget. 1154. After years of manipulation and political cunning, young Henry II accedes to the throne o ...Show more
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Gosford Parkmeets Groundhog Dayby way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror -the most inventive story you'll read this yearTonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ... Again It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful d ...Show more
Notes from a Coma by Mike McCormack
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: General Adult
After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control. Floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland, his coma goes viral and the nation turns to watch. ...Show more
Dracul by Dacre Stoker; J. D. Barker
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept company by a bottle of plum brandy. His fervent prayer is that he will survive this one night ...Show more
The Fox by Frederick Forsyth
$48.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Forsyth deserves his place among the thriller greats.' The Times 'The master of the modern espionage novel returns . . . this is Forsyth at his spellbinding best.' Daily Mail Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn't ...Show more
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) by Robert Galbraith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Cormoran Strike Ser. | Reading Level: very good
LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and the page-turning next instalment in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. 'I seen a kid killed . . . He strangled it, up by the horse.' When Billy, a troubled you ...Show more
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
$31.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin World War II Collection
The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and both it and the book continue to enjoy undiminished popularity. It covers not just the details of the battle of the Atlantic, but deals with the people who fought it - their ...Show more
Sharp Objects: A major HBO & Sky Atlantic Limited Series starring Amy Adams, from the director of BIG LITTLE LIES, Jean-Marc Vallee by Gillian Flynn
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: fine
AN HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille h ...Show more
The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
$9.99 NZD
$24.99 (60% off)
Category: Fiction
For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and proves just how much two young women are willing to sacrifice for love and family. 1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette ...Show more
Never Forget by Jo Bailey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Six moving World War II stories. Told by the people who lived them. New Zealand writer Jo Bailey has combined extensive interviews with the use or wartime diaries and written memoir to create six compelling, first person accounts of war. They include a boy who grew up in Japanese-occupied Dutch East Ind ...Show more