Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for ...Show more
Surface Detail (Culture #9) by Iain M. Banks
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Culture Ser.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power ...Show more
Surfeit of Lamfreys Fs by Marsh Ngaio
$25.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Ngaio Marsh's most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander's first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye... The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar - and rather gloried in it. The double and tr ...Show more
Surgically Enhanced by Pam Ayres
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Includes black and white line drawings. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with fans of all ages, and her wry observations on the peculiarities of modern life will raise a smile from even the most harden ...Show more
Surgically Enhanced - Gift Edition by Pam Ayres
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This new gift edition is a must-have for Pam's many fans - and for anyone who enjoys beautifully crafted stories and poems to make you laugh and make you think. Pam Ayres is one of our most widely-adored poets throughout the world and is nothing less than a national treasure. Her work is popular with f ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning About a Boy ($ 27.95) comes a dark and delicate new novel of suspense. As 20-year-old Gabriel
Surrender by Donna Malane
$20.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Missing persons expert Diane Rowe is used to making sense of other people's lives. It's just a pity she's not having much luck with her own. The brutal murder of her little sister, Niki, and the break-up of her marriage have tested her usual tough optimism. When Niki's killer turns up dead, Diane is det ...Show more
Surrounded by Water by Stephanie Butland
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth's world is turned upside down when her husband dies in a tragic drowning accident. How typical of her kind, generous husband - a respected police officer - to sacrifice his own life saving a complete stranger's. Or so she thinks. What exactly was her husband doing at the lake that night? And w ...Show more
Surveillance by Jonathan Raban
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In a brave new post-9/11 world jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her eleven-year-old daughter Alida, she looks to her journalism to make sense of it all. Yet with Alida drifting into adolescence and the home she's built up for them ...Show more
Surveillance by Bernard Keane
$33.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
They are watching you. Every move you make. Gripping fiction with an edge of terrifying truth - the brilliant and timely debut novel from Crikey's Bernard Keane.
Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why it Pays to Get Along by Stefan Klein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping o ...Show more
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
'Dammit', she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown'. Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa's super-organized assistant, worries about everything fr ...Show more