Mary's Boy, Jean Jacques and Other Stories by Vincent O'Sullivan
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, we last see Dr Frankenstein’s Creature shunned by human society and crossing the Arctic wasteland. What if he were rescued by an eccentric English expedition intent on sailing from pole to pole and back – only to be cast away again in a remote fiord in Aotearoa’s deep south ...Show more
The Missing Sister (#7 The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Seven Sisters Ser.
From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in the multimillion selling epic seriesThey'll search the world to find her.The six D'Aplièse sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still ...Show more
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Category: Fiction
A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the cha ...Show more
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. That girl didn't want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that dec ...Show more
Foregone by Russell Banks
Category: Fiction
At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which ...Show more
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Category: Sale Book | Series: Atlas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-read fantasy novel of the year. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you'll love this. The world's best young magicians accept the opportunity of a lifetime. Six are chosen. Only five will walk away. The Alexandrian Society is a secret ...Show more
Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The international No.1 bestselling author writes her first sequel starring her most beloved character - form an orderly line! Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a g ...Show more
The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. And above all, he never takes himself too seriously. This French Robin Hood has charmed readers for gener ...Show more
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.Life is short.No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.Dodging doctor's orde ...Show more
Entanglement by Bryan Walpert
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from New Zealand. ...Show more
The Freedom of Birds by Stephanie Parkyn
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Two French storytellers and a runaway girl travel through fairytale lands, Italian theatres, and the battlefields of France in search of a place to belong as Napoleon's Empire falls, from the author of Josephine's Garden. Remi Victoire is the golden child among all the theatre orphans; he dreams of a li ...Show more
Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kurangaituku, the bird woman. In the traditional story, told from the view of Hatupatu, he is out hunting and is captured by a creature that is part bird and part woman. The bird woman imprisons him in her cave ...Show more