James by Percival Everett
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
The Long Earth: (Long Earth #1) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Long Earth Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"1916-the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015-Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home o ...Show more
John Tomb's Head by Stephanie Johnson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
John Tomb saw more of the world than most Englishmen of the early nineteenth century. From England to Australia to New Zealand, he led a life of adventure and romance. Two hundred years after his death, his tattooed head is discovered in an American museum. His spirit reawakened, John Tomb wryly observe ...Show more
Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley
$8.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paris Minton is minding his own business - a small used-bookstore of which he is the proud proprietor - when a beautiful woman walks in and asks questions. Before he knows it, Paris has been beaten up, slept with, shot at, robbed, and his bookstore has been burnt to the ground. He
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down. There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom. There was Camila, the frontm ...Show more
Flame Bearer (#10 The Last Kingdom) by Bernard Cornwell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebb ...Show more
The Burning Land (The Last Kingdom #5) by Bernard Cornwell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: The\Last Kingdom Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)--the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex ...Show more
Tom Clancy's Shadow of the Dragon by Marc Cameron
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
From Tom Clancy's bestselling series comes another action-packed Jack Ryan thriller.When brilliant and eccentric scientist Liu Wangshu disappears from his apartment in China, the Ministry of State Security is furious, and certain they know what's happened- a defection to the Americans.President Jack Rya ...Show more
The Long War (Long Earth #2) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Long Earth | Reading Level: very good
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping ma ...Show more
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more