Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen ...Show more
Shell by Kristina Olsson
26.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept ... In 1965 as ...Show more
Travelling Cat Chronicles (HB) by Hiro Arikawa; Philip Gabriel (Translator)
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A stunning hardback edition of this word-of-mouth hit - perfect for gifting. RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the tender feel-good story of a man's journey around Japan with a street cat. Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. INCLUDES 6 EXQUSITE LINE-DRAWINGS. A WATE ...Show more
The Stars Now Unclaimed (#1 The Stars Now Unclaimed) by Drew Williams
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The\Universe After Ser.
Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy.Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the d ...Show more
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and ...Show more
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Pulitzer prize-winning novel from the author of the Booker longlisted My Name is Lucy Barton Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as she grows older she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She ...Show more
Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The Maddaddam Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
The narrator of Margaret Atwood's riveting new novel is Snowman, self-named though not self-created. As the story opens, he's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bed-sheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, Snowman's ...Show more
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
35.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: VMC Designer Collection
I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two const ...Show more
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Best selling Australian author. All of Bryce Courtenay's books have achieved extraordinary sales figures. He was the winner of the 1998 and 1999 APA Who Weekly Reader's Choice Award. Thommo returns from Vietnam to a Australia that regards him as a mercenary guilty of war crimes. He begins to develop all ...Show more