The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry (PB) by Gabrielle Zevin
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island. Eve ...Show more
The Power by Naomi Alderman
26.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
**WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ...Show more
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
26.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...Show more
Wool by Hugh Howey
26.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Silo
The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dr ...Show more
The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Book 2 by Patrick Rothfuss
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Kingkiller Chronicles
Sequel to the extraordinary THE NAME OF THE WIND, THE WISE MAN'S FEAR is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R. R. Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, and a must-read for all fans of HBO's GAME OF THRONES. Picking ...Show more
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
25.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her fath ...Show more
The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara Donati
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she's fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series. 1857: In a bid to outrun he ...Show more
Cain's Jawbone
23.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fi ...Show more
Road to the Soul (Quantum Encryption #2) by Kim Falconer
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: QUANTUM ENCRYPTION
Sequestered on Gaela, Jarrod bides his time, staying hidden until a girl named Bree finds an artefact that shouldn’t exist. The mystery leads Jarrod back to the land of the lost southern continent where he discovers a sentient being like himself, only this version is programmed for survival at any cost. ...Show more
Witches Abroad (#12 Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
25.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: Discworld
'Things have to come to an end, see. That's how it works when you turn the world into stories. You should never have done that. You shouldn't treat people like they was characters, like they was things. But if you do, then you've got to know where the story ends.' It seemed an easy job... After all, ho ...Show more
The God of Lost Words (#3 Hell's Library) by A. J. Hackwith
23.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
Age range 14+. To save the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, former librarian Claire and her allies may have to destroy it first in this new instalment of the rich and intricate fantasy series.Claire, the rakish Hero, the angel Rami, and the muse turned librarian Brevity have accomplished the impossible ...Show more