The Case of the Missing Body by Jenny Powell
$29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: Near Fine
The Case of the Missing Body is the true and unusual story of Lily, who has no sense of her body. She has struggled with the effects of this her whole life. Desperate to try anything to be normal, a nevertheless sceptical Lily agrees to begin work with her physiotherapist in a gymnasium. One extraordina ...Show more
An English Kiwi : Favourite Columns from the Christchurch Star by Brian Priestley; Drawings by Galina Kim
$11.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
Early NZ TV icon who became a controversial newspaper columnist.
Earthquakes and Butterflies: Otautahi, Christchurch by Kathleen Gallagher
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ History
A lyrical, impressionistic novel set amid the series of devastating Christchurch earthquakes beginning on 4th September 2010, through to late 2012. As buildings crumble, the ground opens, and liquefaction and water spring up out of nowhere, seven folk, their lives in pieces, go on. The outstanding book ...Show more
Archipelago: An Atlas of Imagined Islands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$55.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Think of this atlas as the beginning of a journey and a kind of island guidebook, a rough guide to far-flung places, a Baedeker of make-believe, and a new page waiting to be filled. The cycle of Crusoes continues' Huw Lewis-Jones Islomania is a recognized affliction. But what is it about islands that ...Show more
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
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
$48.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Sequel to Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: very good
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades.When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.With The Testaments, the wait is o ...Show more
Death Makes a Prophet by John Bude
$15.00 NZD
$24.99 (39% off)
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children of Osiris, led by the eccentric High Prophet, Eustace K. Mildmann. The cult is a seething hotbed of petty res ...Show more
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" Books of 2018 Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love. Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights w ...Show more
Cannery Row Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more
Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses . . .'I ...Show more