kitten by Olive Nuttall
$30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous but timid, promiscuous but inexperienced. She’s surprising, and surprised by herself. A call that Rosemary’s grandmother is dying puts her on the bus from Te Whanganui-a-Tara back to Kirikiriroa. There, wit ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
$39.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller
$30.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Bluebeard gets a feminist Gothic makeover in this subversive take on the famous French fairy tale -- from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, and for fans of Jane Eyre. When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the C ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
$39.00 NZD
Category: Politics
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped i ...Show more
Bird Child and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Mythology and contemporary Māori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa’s foremost short story writer. The titular story ‘Bird Child’ plunges you deep into Te Kore, an ancient time before time. In another, the formidable goddess Mahuika, Keeper of Fire, becomes a ...Show more
The Fetishist by Katherine Min
$38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A provocative, hilariously savage, and poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, to be published posthumously, about a daughter's revenge on the man whom she believes drove her mother to her death . . . and nothing goes as planned. The rain has made everything cold and damp, and it's the perfect ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
$38.00 NZD
Category: History
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more
The Atlas Complex (The Atlas #3) by Olivie Blake
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science fiction & fantasy | Series: Atlas Ser.
The much-anticipated final instalment in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling phenomenon, The Atlas Six. Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. In this stunning finale, it's a race to survive as the Society recruits are faced with the question of wh ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
$38.00 NZD
Category: Crime & thriller
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
$37.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
WINNER OF THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her doorstep. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police want to speak with her husband, Larry, a trade unionist for the Teachers' Union of ...Show more
Mona of the Manor (#10 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
$38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Tales of the City
Mona is the eccentric Lady of Easley House, running a bed and breakfast to keep her inherited English manor afloat. Wilfred is Mona's 26-year-old adopted son who spends his weekends in London, looking for love in the gay bars of Soho while pining after his pen pal, Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver. The curren ...Show more
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
$40.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion narrates this fever dream of a novel, carrying us on a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing modern day L.A. I've never eaten a person but today I might . . . A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the H ...Show more