Out of the Vaipe, the Deadwater : A Writer’s Early Life (BWB Texts) by Albert Wendt
$14.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In this BWB Text, Manualaivao Albert Wendt offers his readers a short but tantalising tour of his early life – and the influences that shaped him as a novelist and poet. The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s back ...Show more
Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Ambler's classic thriller of post-war international politics and intrigue, centring on gun-smuggling in South-East AsiaGirija Krishnan, an Indian clerk, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on a lost cache of arms hidden in the Malayan jungle. If he can find a buyer for the weapons, he ...Show more
Pathfinders by C. Lewis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: IWM Wartime Classics Ser.
A new edition of Cecil Lewis's 1944 aviation classic. Over the course of a single night in 1942, the crew members of a Wellington bomber reflect on the paths of their own lives as they embark on a fateful mission deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. Based on his own experience as a World War I fighter ...Show more
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
$38.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Ramses: The Son of the Light by Christian Jacq
$17.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Ramses Ser.
Having led Egypt to glorious prosperity, 50-year-old Ramses should be able to rest. His hard-won peace, however, is fragile: The Hittite king wants him to marry his daughter, and revolt is brewing among the revenge-driven Libyans. Ramses still knows how to work miracles to save his beloved land, but eve ...Show more
Signs of Life by Amy Head
$30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Christchurch, post quakes, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets, whose inhabitants waver - like their city - suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony, very much alive, is declared dead, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol, and boomer Carla ...Show more
Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett
$27.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Someone from Sarah's past has murdered her. Her friend, Nancy, knew all the men in Sarah's past, any one of whom could have committed the murder, but the police come to believe it could have been Nancy.
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny
$15.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise. State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership th ...Show more
The Alchemist - Gift Edition by Paulo Coelho; James Noel Smith (Illustrator); Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
$61.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An international bestseller Over 80 million copies sold worldwide A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale o ...Show more
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
$22.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. In The Art of Fielding, we see sport played in its purest form: by young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College, "a little school in the crook of the thumb of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin," are all t ...Show more