Sweet Jimmy by Bryan Brown
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Bryan Brown has been telling stories with his distinctive Australian voice on TV and in film for a long time, but this time he's writing crime in his first book. 'Uniquely Australian and uncommonly good, I could hear the author's voice in every spare, haunting line. More please.' - Michael Robotham 'My ...Show more
Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wil ...Show more
Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance. Your father is a liar. But is he a killer? Even liars tell the truth . . . sometimes. Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a t ...Show more
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'Told in a rich array of voices, this gorgeously written debut explores the myriad syncopations of love and desire' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere 'Beautifully and cleverly written...The novel's tender, sensual, enchanting prose entices you into a world of deep longing' Deesha Philyaw, au ...Show more
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure.' Observer 'Triumph ... the sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending.' The Sunday Times 'Pitch perfect ... Exquisite ... Terrific ... Ver ...Show more
Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The major new novel from David Nicholls. One life-changing summerCharlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thin ...Show more
Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD. by Jonas Jonasson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin, his sort-of-son; Agneta, a wronged and penniless ex-wife; and Johan, an unscrupulous Stockholm ad-man who has set up a company speciali ...Show more
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the bestselling author of Atonement and Enduring Love comes 'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning? Sunday TimesThe year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final ...Show more
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...'This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot from a mundane, provincial past, she's come to New York to look for a life she can't define, except as a burning drive to ...Show more
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa and her heartbreaking sear ...Show more
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French R ...Show more
Swimming Home by Mary-Rose MacColl
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl, wasn't Oxford or Cambridge, wasn't a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was Catherine...It's 1925 and fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike ...Show more