The Unreliable People by Rosetta Allan
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Is all love doomed under a heartless regime? Antonina is a student at the prestigious Academy of Art in St Petersburg, though at times she feels she might be a better fit at the Centre of Non-conformist Art across town. She knows she stands out as different, being neither Russian, Korean nor Kazak - and ...Show more
All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church
25.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
A powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas -- and finds unexpected fortune, friendship, and love. With her uncanny knack for understanding the hidden lives of women, Elizabeth J. Church captures both the iconic extravagance of an era and ...Show more
Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists - to unworldly Joan it is dazzling. After a chance meeting with Russian-born Sonya and Leo, Joan is swept up in the glamour and energy of the duo, and finds herself growing closer and closer to them both. But allegiance is a slippery thing. ...Show more
Lilac Girls (#1) by Martha Hall Kelly
27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this runaway international bestseller reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom and second chances. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
26.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Whitney Scharer's storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details . . . This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portrait of the forging of an artist's soul.' Madeleine Miller, author of Circe 'I'd rather take a photograph than be one,' says Lee Miller, shortly after she arrives in Paris ...Show more
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
38.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more