The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
38.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
The Wild Date Palm by Diane Armstrong
35.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train journey ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
35.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
40.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on ...Show more
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
37.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations | Reading Level: near fine
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him until a chance encounter changes everything. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Orego ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
26.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientif ...Show more
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize by Claire Keegan
25.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
38.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
In a world torn apart by war, a brother and sister fight to find each other. The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden. World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that sugg ...Show more
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (PB) by C L Miller
38.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations | Series: The\Antique Hunters Ser.
C L Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder is the start of your new favourite crime series, The Number One Ladies Detective Agency meets The Fellowship of the Puzzle Makers as written by Richard Osman. Freya, it's down to you to finish what I started. Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint Engli ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
37.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations | Reading Level: near fine
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been runn ...Show more
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See
38.00 NZD
Category: Staff Recommendations
In 15th century China two women are born under the same sign, the Metal Snake. But life will take the friends on very different paths. According to Confucius, 'an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is bein ...Show more