An Unremarkable Body by Elisa Lodato
$34.99 NZD
Category: First Novel | Reading Level: very good
When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life which consumes daughter, Laura.The medical examiner's report, in which precious parts of Katharine's body are weighed and categorized, motivates Laura to write her own version of events. To bear witness to the unbearab ...Show more
Assurances by J. O. Morgan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A war-poem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s during a period of vigilance and dread in the middle of the Cold War: the long stand-off between nuclear powers, where the only defence was the threat of mutually assured destruction. Using a mix of versed and unversed p ...Show more
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
$0.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
Sometimes it takes a stranger to really know who you are When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn’t expect a reply. When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he. They’re both searching for something, they just don’t know it yet. ...Show more
Normal People by Sally Rooney
$32.99 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and intensely private. But when Connell come ...Show more
Orphan, Monster, Spy by Matt Killeen
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's
"Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."--The New York Post After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah finds herself on the run from the Nazis in Third Reich-ruled Germany. While trying to escap ...Show more
Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart
$4.61 NZD
Category: First Novel
'An important and timely story that explores the ongoing impact of war and how it's often left to the women to pick up the pieces. The way Hart has made a mosaic of different women's experiences, be they British, American or Iraqi, is profoundly moving. Pieces of Me is a love story that will leave you i ...Show more
Soho by Richard Scott
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry
In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, drawing upon his experience of London's gay communities. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray ...Show more
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Novel | Reading Level: very good
Conceived while his larger-than-life father, Bear Bavinsky, cavorted around Rome in the 1950s, the young Pinch learns that his father''s genius trumps everything else. After Bear abandons his family, Pinch strives to make himself worthy--first as a painter, and then as his father''s biographer, before s ...Show more