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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
$36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
$37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ...Show more
Trio by William Boyd
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the film is shot, wit ...Show more
The End of the Day by Bill Clegg
$35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The second novel from Booker-longlisted Bill Clegg Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a profoundly moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of family and friendship. The End of the Day is ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico--and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets. "Masterful . . . a gloriously moody adventure, spooky, smart, and wry."--Victor LaValle, auth ...Show more
State Highway One by Sam Coley
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
This is what I want to do. I want to go home. I want you to come with me. 'I want to go from here . . .' Finger on Cape Reinga. '. . . to here.' Finger at the bottom of Stewart Island, right at the bottom of the map. It's been years since Alex was in New Zealand, and years since he spent any one-on-one ...Show more
Tiny Pieces of Us by Nicky Pellegrino
$34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
My heart is less than 1% of my body, it weighs hardly anything; it is only a tiny piece of me, yet it is the part everyone finds most interesting. Vivi Palmer knows what it's like to live life carefully. Born with a heart defect, she was given a second chance after a transplant, but has never quite dare ...Show more
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. Viewing an apartment normal ...Show more
D (A Tale of Two Worlds): A modern-day Dickensian fable by Michel Faber
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come. I loved it' NEIL GAIMAN. A contemporary Dickensian fable about moral courage and self-determination by the acclaimed author of The Crimson Petal and the White. 12-year-old Dhikilo was born in a faraway country, though ...Show more
In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare
$24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Set against a ticking clock, this "taut and unpredictable" thriller pits a ruthless cult against a mother's love, revealing that our darkest secrets are the hardest ones to leave behind (Chris Hammer). Four days to go Amy has only ever known life in the Clearing, amidst her brothers and sisters--until a ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The mind can take you anywhere you want ...Show more
