Devotion by Hannah Kent
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Prussia, 1836 Hanne Nussbaum is a child of nature - she would rather run wild in the forest than conform to the limitations of womanhood. In her village of Kay, Hanne is friendless and considered an oddity . . . until she meets Thea. Ocean, 1838 The Nussbaums are Old Lutherans, bound by God's law and at ...Show more
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Eva Ibbotson; Amanda Craig (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg, from beloved author Eva Ibbotson.A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning Eva Ibbots ...Show more
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favourite reads of 2020Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its st ...Show more
I Laugh Me Broken by Bridget Van der Zijpp
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ginny is feeling lighter and heavier at the same time. She’s just learned from her cousin about a devastating genetic inheritance – but the revelation has brought a new logic to her mother’s death many years before, and to her mother’s love. Leaving her fiancé in the dark, Ginny flees to Germany to rese ...Show more
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the breathtaking beauty of the Galapagos Islands, Diana will learn who she really is, and the person she wants to become, in Jodi's deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and mo ...Show more
Death's End (#3 Remembrance of Earth's Past) by Cixin Liu
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Three-Body Problem Ser.
Concluding the trilgy that began with THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge and, with human science advancing ...Show more
The Dark Forest (#2 Remembrance of Earth's Past) by Cixin Liu
Category: Fiction | Series: The Three-Body Problem Ser.
Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their ...Show more
Butcherbird by Cassie Hart
Category: Fiction
Something is drawing Jena Benedict's family to darkness. Her mother, father, brother and baby sister are killed in a barn fire, and Grandmother Rose banishes Jena from the farm. Now, twenty years on Rose is dying, and Jena returns home with her boyfriend Cade in tow. Jena wants answers about why she was ...Show more
You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
Category: Fantasy / Romance
Two Friends Ten Summer Trips Their Last Chance to Fall in Love 12 Summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 Summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every ye ...Show more
The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle by Sophie Green
Category: Fiction
It's 1982 in Australia. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER is a box office hit and Paul Hogan is on the TV. In a seaside suburb, housewife Theresa takes up swimming. She wants to get fit; she also wants a few precious minutes to herself. So at sunrise each day she strikes out past the waves. From the same beach, ...Show more
The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green
Category: Fiction
You are warmly invited to . . . The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book ClubSunday 25th June 1978, 10 o'clockRSVP to Sybil Baxter - ask the operator for 'Fairvale'~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Brimming with atmosphere and warmth' Jenny Ashcroft, author of Island in the East'An absolute gem of a novel' Bette ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Thomas Hardy
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more