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Looking for a great book? Discover our hand-picked winners - books our booksellers love, bestselling favourites, award-winning titles and those we simply can’t put down.

46 books, in our booksellers' order
All Her Lives
BookAll Her Lives

 All Her Lives follows women across generations as they resist, nurture and transform. These are lives shaped by love and politics, motherhood and memory, constraint and defiance. From girls raised in the garden of Plunket founder Truby King,...

$35.00
Te Ngahere i te Ra
BookTe Ngahere i te Ra

As the sun rises, which creatures come to life and greet the day? This beautiful picture book explores the busy world of the daytime creatures in Aotearoa New Zealand's bush. It includes many reo Maori phrases that we...

$24.99
Lessons in Chemistry (B)
BookLessons in Chemistry (B)

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts hereChemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.But it's the early...

$26.00
Tree of Nourishment - Kāwai bk 2
BookTree of Nourishment - Kāwai bk 2

It's 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Maui, Aotearoa. Hine-aute, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga, is fleeing through the bush; a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fishing net. What follows is the gripping tale...

$39.99
Ministry Of Time, The (B)
BookMinistry Of Time, The (B)

‘Addictive’Independent‘Crack this book open and you’ll see how time can disappear’Financial Times‘Readers, I envy you: There’s a smart, witty novel in your future’Washington PostA civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering...

$27.99
Nash Falls (B)
BookNash Falls (B)

Baldacci is the master' - Jeffrey Archer Nash Falls is the start of a pulse-pounding original series from the international number one bestselling author The 6.20 Man. Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a...

$28.00
Land
BookLand

You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow' A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy. On a windswept peninsula...

$37.99
Nowhere Boy, The
BookNowhere Boy, The

Three-year-old Oliver, known as Apple Man, vanishes from a remote car park while his young father, Scott, carries fishing gear down to the beach. When he returns, the car is empty. His son has vanished without a trace.Apple...

$37.99
Whistler
BookWhistler

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE DUTCH HOUSE AND TOM LAKE. When Daphne notices an older gentleman following her around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she doesn't expect it to be Eddie -...

$38.99
Things We Never Say, The
BookThings We Never Say, The

Internationally bestselling and prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident in a man's life — a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, and free will in a capsizing world. Artie Dam is a...

$38.00
Theo of Golden
BookTheo of Golden

One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he came from... His name is Theo and he's arrived there by chance - or has he? He visits the...

$34.99
Daughter Of No Worlds
BookDaughter Of No Worlds

Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her...

$38.00
Powerless (B)
BookPowerless (B)

Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed.Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those...

$28.99
You Are Here (B)
BookYou Are Here (B)

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by. Michael is...

$27.99
Many Lives of Mama Love, The
BookMany Lives of Mama Love, The

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious,...

$27.99
Fourth Wing (B)
BookFourth Wing (B)

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . . Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a...

$27.99
Black Silk & Sympathy
BookBlack Silk & Sympathy

Sydney, 1865. Seventeen-year-old Tatiana Caldwell travels from London to make a new life. Her path leads her to Crowe Funeral Services, where she apprentices under the tutelage of Titus Crowe, the enigmatic owner. Tatty finds herself drawn to...

$37.99
Book Of Guilt, The (B)
BookBook Of Guilt, The (B)

Shortlisted for the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards In a sinisterly skewed version of England in 1979, thirteen-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a New Forest home, part of the government’s...

$28.00
He Puāwai - A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers
BookHe Puāwai - A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers

Aotearoa has at least 2,200 native species of flowering plants that have evolved in our unique conditions, and the vast majority of them grow nowhere else on earth. This has made New Zealand a natural laboratory for studies...

$79.99
Flesh
BookFlesh

From Booker Prize winning author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. ' A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by...

$38.00
Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit
BookLiar, Liar, Lick, Spit

Let us praisethe small evasions:the missed callthe slight sore throat,the prior engagement … From ‘Little Fibs’Fibs, porkies, little white lies, absolute whoppers and criminal evasions: the ways we can deceive each other are legion.Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, the...

$30.00
Hine Toa, A Story of Bravery
BookHine Toa, A Story of Bravery

In the 1950s, a young Ngahuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whanau dismiss her dreams....

$39.99
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