Hippie by Paulo Coelho
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie ...Show more
Love Is Blind - The Rapture of Brodie Moncur by William Boyd
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'A finely judged performance: a deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guardian Book of the Week This is William Boyd's sweeping, ...Show more
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser. | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. ...Show more
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
45.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Reviewed by Pascale, one of our longstanding casual staff members and a creative writing major. Murakami’s new novel Killing Commendatore is the Kyoto-born author at his whimsical best. Compelling and enigmatic, it follows a Japanese portrait painter and the unusual happenings that unfold when he moves ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing sha ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Virginia Woolf
15.99 NZD
Category: Classics
Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON 'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own. All things denied to most women around the world living in ...Show more
My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan
5.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Excellent Condition - like new. 'You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fadeaYou'd never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with h ...Show more
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
37.00 NZD
Category: Crime | Series: Philip Marlowe Ser.
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like under ...Show more
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
While exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. 'The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I must finish my story for you. My future, my descendant, my mokopuna. Listen.?So begins the tale of Ja ...Show more
The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth
26.00 NZD
Category: Crime
THE KILL LISTThe names of those men and women who would threaten the world's security - held above top secret at the highest level of the US government. THE PREACHERAt the top of it, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill Western targets. As the bodies begin to pile up in ...Show more
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success "Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better." -- The Times (London) Maurice Swift is handso ...Show more
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in ...Show more