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The Art of Death by David Fennell
$32.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
AN INTENSELY CREEPY SERIAL KILLER THRILLER DEBUT, FOR FANS OF M. W. Craven, RAGDOLL AND THE WHISPER MAN. London's latest art installation is a real killer . . . An underground artist leaves three glass cabinets in Trafalgar Square that contain a gruesome installation: the corpses of three homeless men.W ...Show more
Bad Habits by Flynn Meaney
$21.00 NZD
Category: Real World
Hilarious, bold, sparky and surprising, this is the funniest feminist book you'll read all year. Alex is a rebel from the tip of her purple fauxhawk to the toes of her biker boots. She's tried everything she can to get expelled from her strict Catholic boarding school. Now, Alex has a new plan. Tired ...Show more
The Liminal Space by Jacquie McRae
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
In a small village, there are whispers in the market square that William is not who he says he is. They say he skinny-dips and talks to trees. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books – for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become entangled with his. Emily is in a troubled relations ...Show more
Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell
$34.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks - Louise
The joyous, charming and utterly irresistible new novel from the author of mega-bestseller The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with ...Show more
We Are Wolves (HB) by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks - Louise
THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING AUSTRALIAN WRITER KATRINA NANNESTAD Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and ...Show more
Zen Heart: What I've Learned from Animals and Life by Mark Vette
$40.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks - Louise
A cheeky baboon, a cockatoo sending a heading dog out to round up sheep, a family of pukekos crossing the road, a dog saying 'bugger', an octopus taking a photo. Think of an ad you love, or a New Zealand-made movie, and if it has an animal in it chances are Mark Vette was behind it. He's trained almost ...Show more
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi; Yusef Salaam
$22.99 NZD
Category: Real World
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give. One fateful night, an altercation in a ...Show more
The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth. From the top of the wooded bluff, where the rain-slick road had curved so treacherously, down to the swollen river at the base of the cliff, was easily six ...Show more
Brasswitch and Bot (#1 Rise of the Remarkables) by Gareth Ward
$22.99 NZD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: The Rise of the Remarkables
Drawn into a world of prejudice, deceit and danger, Wrench must master her powers, knowing they offer her only hope for survival . . . if they don't destroy the world first. Screams surge along York's narrow Victorian streets as a run-away crackle-tram races toward disaster. Fearing an accident like the ...Show more
The Quick and the Dead by Cynric Temple-Camp
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Dr Cynric Temple-Camp's suspense-filled, often Gothic story-telling ability captivated readers in his debut book, The Cause of Death. In the Quick and the Dead, New Zealand's self-confessed aficionado of death is back with more mysterious illnesses, gruesome murders, baffling crimes, and the other curio ...Show more
The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos; Sam Taylor (translator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Walter Presents
By turns farcical and moving, The Mystery of Henri Pick is a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books – and of the authors who write them. In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication; the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Vis ...Show more