The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen ...Show more
Let Go My Hand by Edward Docx
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'A humane, humorous and ultimately extremely moving novel' Guardian'A darkly comic, deeply moving and thoroughly modern father-son love story' Mail on Sunday'Funny, moving, disturbing and beautifully written' Adam Kay'Tremendously moving, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny' Paul MurrayLouis Laske ...Show more
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
Gabriel's Bay by Catherine Robertson
$36.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A heart-warming, thoroughly entertaining novel about a whole community.
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
$10.00 NZD
$35.00 (71% off)
Category: General Fiction
Hello, ageing parents. Hello, dementia. Goodbye, vitamin...Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiance are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has ...Show more
Brushstrokes of Memory by Karen McMillan
$34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel of love, lost memories and rediscovering dreams.On her thirty-second birthday, Rebecca is in high spirits. She adores her husband of seven years, Daniel, a successful musician. She is carving out a reputation as a talented painter. Life could not be better. But in 2013, she wakes in hospital aft ...Show more
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold--an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their ...Show more
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
Moon Over Soho (#2 Rivers of London) by Ben Aaronovitch
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Rivers of London Novel
Body and soul. The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz st ...Show more
Horse with Hat by Marty Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Marty Smith grew up in remote hill country between Pahiatua and the sea. Although her father and grandmother lived on the same farm, one at each end, her father never spoke to her grandmother in her living memory, and their feud is the subject of quite a few poems. They also look at the effects of the g ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
$15.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a li ...Show more