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Rising Tide by Jennifer Palgrave
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Nat Spiller, an admired climate change activist, has accidentally drowned. That’s the police verdict. But was it an accident? His partner Ellie thinks otherwise. Pam, Ellie’s aunt, draws a reluctant Lauren Fraser into the mystery. The formidable Lloyd, Nat’s father, head of Spiller Developments, tells L ...Show more
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
$20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult
From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing ne ...Show more
Heiress - The Untold Story of Pride and Prejudice S Miss Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'With stunningly lyrical writing, Greeley elevates Austen-inspired fiction onto a whole new plane.' - Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society As a fussy baby, Anne was prescribed laudanum to quiet her and has been given the opium-heavy syrup ever since on account of her continuing ill hea ...Show more
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay'A wild thing ... covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence o ...Show more
Toto Among the Murderers by Sally Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
It is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long, he ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High-Low podcast 'Exquisitely tender, beautifully written, funny and sad' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-up Grace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure. But you'll lov ...Show more
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native G ...Show more
The Wild Card by Renee
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Ruby Palmer has been dealt a rough hand. She was left in a kete at the back door of the Porohiwi Home for Children when she was a baby, and then at seven she discovered that Betty who stopped the bad stuff happening to Ruby at the Home has drowned. Now in her thirties, Ruby suspects her friend was murde ...Show more
From a Shadow Grave by Andi Buchanan
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It is said that her ghost still haunts the Mount Victoria Tunnel. These are the stories she was denied. In 1931, seventeen-year-old Phyllis Symons was attacked by her lover and left to die in the construction site of the Mount Victoria Tunnel. From a Shadow Grave picks up the threads of history and expl ...Show more
To the Fire by Sandi Hall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An eco-warrior gender-fluid adventure inside and outside Time.
Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize! "A tantalizing mix of psychological thriller and literary fiction...Mootoo brilliantly explores white discourse about qu ...Show more
