A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
'Expertly alternating vivid domestic detail with lucid exposition of the gradual evolution of totalitarianism, Caroline Moorehead allows her readers not only to know, but also to feel, how it was to endure fascist oppressiona . It feels like the book she was born to write' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, GuardianM ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$35.00 NZD
Category: First Novel | Reading Level: very good
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. Named a New York Times 2017 "Books to Breeze Through This Summer" Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel Award Longlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.Meet Eleanor Ol ...Show more
Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon's shoulder. A slip of the hand and life eb ...Show more
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
$29.99 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ...Show more
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter. A Father. A Cult (Brethren) by Rebecca Stott
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy when you can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult. 'At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn't explain how I'd become a t ...Show more
Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they expl ...Show more
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 AND RADIO 6 MUSIC**FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER PICK 2017**GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READS 2017* 'A brilliant debut - a tender, nostalgic and at times darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief - from one of my favourite writers' - Warsan Shire Translating as 'in ...Show more
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
$20.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
'Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.' Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways The house is on Montpelier Parade- just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working ...Show more
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2017. The astonishing new novel from Carnegie Medal, CliPPA Poetry Award, YA Book Prize and CBI Book of the Year Award winning author Sarah Crossan.They think I hurt someone.But I didn't. You hear?Cos people are gonna be telling youall kinds of lies.I need ...Show more
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
$26.34 NZD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Set against a backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinead Morrissey's sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some of the great feats of human engineering to reveal the states of b ...Show more
Once upon a Time in the East : A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
$38.85 NZD
Category: Biography
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
$39.99 NZD
Category: Novel
From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. A GUARDIAN NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the ...Show more