Turbulent Threads by Karen McMillan
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Dunedin, 1890: Suddenly orphaned at the tender age of twenty, Greer Gillies is reduced to working as a humble servant at Larnach Castle, a far cry from the dreams she held before. As she struggles with the stark reality of grief, she finds her journey has only just begun as the decade proves transformat ...Show more
Queen, King, Ace by Olivia Hayfield
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Britain is sunk in gloom, its government blundering between crisis and scandal. The country desperately needs a new hero. Enter Arthur 'Ace' Penhalagon, smashing his way to Wimbledon victory and into women's hearts. Ace has two missions: to be the first man to win the Golden Slam - the Holy Grail of ten ...Show more
Amma by Saraid de Silva
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Singapore, 1951. When Josephina is a girl, her parents lock her in a room with the father of the boy to whom she's betrothed. What happens next will determine the course of her life for generations to come. New Zealand, 1984. Josephina and her family leave Sri Lanka for New Zealand. But their new home ...Show more
Lioness by Emily Perkins
$25.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood... This is an excellent novel' The Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we ...Show more
Ash by Louise Wallace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she has been called back during maternity leave and is coping – just – with the juggle of meetings, mealtimes, farm visits, her boss’s search for legal loopholes and the constant care of her much-loved children ...Show more
Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home. Though he is regarded w ...Show more
Root Leaf Flower Fruit - A Verse Novel by Bill Nelson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
A woman lies helpless after a stroke, her family gathered. Her grandson, healing slowly from a head injury after coming off his bike, takes leave from his job and family to prepare her rundown house and farm for sale. As he works, he sifts through what remains of his grandmother’s daily life. Then, afte ...Show more
Take Two by Danielle Hawkins
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes, you have to revisit your past to find your future. Laura and Doug were together for ages. Their breakup was just one of those things - she wanted children, he didn't, no hard feelings - at least not until, with their relationship barely cold in its grave, he got his new girlfriend pregnant. ...Show more
When I Open the Shop by romesh dissanayake
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jum ...Show more
The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poetry & Anthology
In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the man ...Show more
Because All Fades by Freddy Gillies
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Andrew and his girlfriend Jess are making a life for themselves in London, but it’s a bit of a grind, and now their relationship is beginning to suffer. Andrew’s best friend Jaryd on the other hand is living every young man’s dream – a beautiful apartment in Paris, a happy relationship with the lovely L ...Show more
The Space Between by Lauren Keenan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
How do you choose between two sides, when you don't belong on either? Frances is an unmarried Londoner newly landed in colonial Aotearoa at the dawn of the First Taranaki War. Once well-regarded, her family's impressive fall from grace sees them seeking their fortune in a raw, new country and struggling ...Show more