Blue Fox (The) by Sjón; Victoria Cribb (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 'Enchantingly poetic . . . spellbinding . . . magical . . . exceptional' Independent The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. From there we're trans ...Show more
Daughter of the Tigris by Muhsin Al-Ramli; Luke Leafgren (Translator)
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The follow-up to the internationally acclaimed The President's Gardens On the sixth day of Ramadan, in a land without bananas, Qisma leaves for Baghdad with her husband-to-be to find the body of her father. But in the bloodiest year of a bloody war, how will she find one body among thousands? For Tari ...Show more
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Out of the Hitler Time
This semi-autobiographical and unforgettable story, of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany before the start of the Second World War, now reissued with its original cover illustration in this very special edition. Michael Morpurgo called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit: "The most life-enhancing book you c ...Show more
White As Silence, Red As Song - A Novel by Alessandro D'Avenia
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Hailed as Italy's The Fault in Our Stars, this Italian bestseller is now available for the first time in English. "I was born on the first day of school, and I grew up and old in just two hundred days . . ." Sixteen-year-old Leo has a way with words, but he doesn't know it yet. He spends his time textin ...Show more
The Love That I Have by James Moloney
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
For fans of The Book Thief, a powerful and heartbreaking story set during WW2 that stays with you long after the final page is read. Margot Baumann hasleft school to take up her sister's job in the mailroom of a large prison. Butthis is Germany in 1944, and the prison is Sachsenhausen concentration camp ...Show more
A Drop of Patience by William Melvin Kelley
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here Ludlow Washington will suffer for eleven years, until his prodigious musical talent provides him an unlikely ticket back into the world. The property of a band, playing for down-and-outs in a southern dive, Lud ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damn ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
$14.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function- to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. ...Show more
The Cauliflower by Nicola Barker
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"Extremely ambitious". (Financial Times). "An imaginative tour de force ...She really is a genius". (Guardian). "A delight". (New Statesman). FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR NICOLA BARKER. To the world he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To temple owner, ...Show more