The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved in ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$18.00 NZD
$25.00 (28% off)
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 2020. 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good fa ...Show more
Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$22.00 NZD
$30.00 (26% off)
Category: NZ Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
Things OK With You? by Vincent O'Sullivan
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Know what a thing’s called, and we own it; if not, there’s really only pointing, our still wishing we knew. The afternoon wilts round its edges, unless we’ve said it. Things OK with you? is Vincent O’Sullivan’s first collection of poems since Being Here: Selected Poems (2015) and And So It Is: New Poems ...Show more
Toku Papa by Solly Ruby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
When you first told me that you gave me the name of our tupuna so that I would be strong enough to hold our family inside my ribcage, I believed you. Here you are. Here is how I saw you, trapped in your own amber. Now it’s time for you to believe me. Tōku Pāpā is a book that serves as a map of survival ...Show more
Man Alone: VUP Classic by John Mulgan
$22.00 NZD
$30.00 (26% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Man Alone is one of the foundation stones of New Zealand literature. Almost all copies of the first edition, published in England in 1939, were destroyed in the Blitz. When it was republished in New Zealand in 1949, after the author’s suicide in Cairo in 1945, the publisher Paul’s Book Arcade made a num ...Show more
I Am in Bed with You by Emma Barnes
$15.00 NZD
$25.00 (40% off)
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity. I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I’m always on theleft. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winterI left myself behind in the 90s. I’m coming back now. Youcan see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissu ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
The Sun Sister (#6 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The\Seven Sisters Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author comes the latest instalment in an epic multi-million selling series, The Seven Sisters. To the outside world, Electra D'Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.Yet beneath the veneer ...Show more
The Shadow Sister: The Seven Sisters Book 3 by Lucinda Riley
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The Seven Sisters
Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster.Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved fathe ...Show more
The Seven Sisters (#1) by Lucinda Riley
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The Seven Sisters (#1) | Reading Level: very good
Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"-a fabulous, secluded castle that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.Maia and her sister were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, eac ...Show more
The Moon Sister (#5 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
$25.00 NZD
Category: General | Series: The Seven Sisters | Reading Level: very good
The Moon Sister is the fifth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. After the death of her father - Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy D'Aplièse , trusting her instincts, moves to the remote wilds of Scotland. There she takes a j ...Show more