Heloise by Mandy Hager
Category: Fiction
What happens when the 12th century's most famous French lovers are caught in the crossfire of factions, religious reform and blind ambition? Heloise is a determined young woman with an exceptional mind, longing to pursue learning rather than marriage or life as a cloistered nun. Her path inevitably cros ...Show more
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf; Lillian Melcher (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
Meet Alexander von Humboldt: the great lost scientist, visionary, thinker and daring explorer; the man who first predicted climate change, who has more things named after him than anyone else (including a sea on the moon), and who has inspired generations of writers, thinkers and revolutionaries . . . ...Show more
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: Fiction
This haunting interpretation, exploring the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of a poor student who murders a miserly pawnbroker, is reimagined in Putin-era St. Petersburg. Hailed a 'resounding success', it brings fresh relevance to this chilling tale.
Salt Picnic by Evans Patrick
Category: Ockham Book Awards
`All the time on the island there had been something she was looking for. She knew she had to keep this in mind, and that she'd know what it was when she found it. Whatever it proved to be.' It's 1956 and Iola arrives on the island of Ibiza, on the fringes of Franco's Spain, with little more than a Span ...Show more
Five Strings by Apirana Taylor
Category: Ockham Book Awards
Mack is a larger-than-life street philosopher and Puti's a former gang member looking for something more. Together, they're at the bottom of the heap. They live out their lives in a haze of smoke and alcohol, accompanied by a host of other characters scraping by on the fringes of society. Will any of th ...Show more
Tess by Mcdougall Kirsten
Category: Ockham Book Awards
In the silence she could hear the oncoming hum, like a large flock approaching. She didn't want to hear his story; she'd had enough of them. Tess is on the run when she's picked up from the side of the road by lonely middle-aged father Lewis Rose. With reluctance, she's drawn into his family troubles an ...Show more
Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam
Category: Ockham Book Awards
Thousands flee central Wellington as a far too common 'once in a century' storm descends. Roads are closed and all rail is halted. For their own safety, city workers are told that they must go home early. Sita is a Tamil Sri Lankan refugee living in the Hutt Valley. She's just had a call from her boss. ...Show more
The New Animals by Pip Adam
Category: Ockham Book Awards
Carla, Sharon and Duey have worked in fashion for longer than they care to remember. For them, there's nothing new under the sun. They're Generation X: tired, cynical and sick of being used. Tommy, Cal and Kurt are millennials. They've come from nowhere, but with their monied families behind them they'r ...Show more
Baby by Annaleese Jochems
Category: Fiction
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Fiction 2018. Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen when her bootcamp instructor, the striking Anahera, suggests they run away together. With stolen money and a dog in tow they buy 'Baby', ...Show more
Iceland by Dominic Hoey
Category: Ockham Book Awards
Office-worker Zlata hopes for a record deal so she can leave Auckland city. She meets Hamish, graffiti artist and part-time drug dealer. Surrounded by a makeshift family of friends and ex-lovers, their dreams of music, art and travel take shape. Iceland lays bare the reality of a generation trying to fi ...Show more
The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
Category: Fiction | Series: Lord of the Rings (Paperback)
In time for the golden anniversary of the arrival of part one of Tolkien's epic masterpiece on these shore comes a spectacular new edition of "The Lord of the Rings." The text is fully correctedQunder the supervision of Christopher TolkienQto meet the author's exacting wishes, and includes two large-for ...Show more
The Beat of the Pendulum by Chidgey Catherine
Category: Fiction
From the author of the acclaimed The Wish Child comes something unexpected and fearless: a found novel. The Beat of the Pendulum is the result of one year in which Chidgey drew upon the language she encountered on a daily basis, such as news stories, radio broadcasts, emails, social media, street signs, ...Show more