In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
27.99 NZD
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Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd
18.99 NZD
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Amory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
27.99 NZD
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Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
24.99 NZD
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Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
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'Like a silent fall of snow; suddenly, the reader is enveloped...visually acute, skilfully written; it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind.' HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies There are six homesteads on Blackasen Mountain. A day's journey away lies the empty town. ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
24.99 NZD
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It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
Outlander: The gripping historical romance from the best-selling adventure series (Outlander 1) by Diana Gabaldon
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Outlander | Reading Level: good
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. As seen on TV. Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another. In 1946, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks throu ...Show more
The Outsider by Albert Camus
20.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. Today, more than fifty years after its first appearance, we can see that ...Show more
Enchanted, The by Rene Denfeld
24.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
'THE ENCHANTED wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book... so dark, yet so exquisite.' Erin Morgentern, author of The Night Circus A prisoner sits on death row in a maximum security prison. His only escape from his ha ...Show more
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
24.99 NZD
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creat ...Show more
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
25.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: near fine
A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Dama ...Show more
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author's suicide.'This terse account ...Show more