Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees. In 1969, two sisters from rural Viet Nam leave their parents' home and travel to the bustling city of Saigon. Soon their lives are swept up in the unstoppable flames of a war ...Show more
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope' Ocean Vuong An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice.There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the ...Show more
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
Toto Among the Murderers by Sally J Morgan
27.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own stories and loves to tell' Sophie WardWINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM AWARDSIt is 1973 and Jude - known to her friends as Toto - has just graduated from art ...Show more
Winter Time by Laurence Fearnley
36.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Set on the shores of Lake Tekapo, this vivid novel is about familial love, friendship and how our lives touch, connect and impact upon one another. 'The SUV advanced, without slowing as it passed; the driver probably didn't even register him. Roland watched until it reached the canal crossing, where the ...Show more
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The heartbreaking follow-up to the million copy bestseller, The Beekeeper of Aleppo. 'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' - Jodi Picoult 'Will break your heart and open your eyes' - Heather Morris, author of The Ta ...Show more
Room by Emma Donoghue
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key.Jack and Ma are prisoners.'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger'One o ...Show more
Shiver by Nikki Gemmell
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The heartbreaking and beautiful original debut novel from the now-acclaimed Australian writer, Nikki Gemmell. I can catalogue Antarctica by touch. The touch of air sucked dry on my cheek, the fur of a day-old seal pup, the touch of an iceberg, a blizzard, a lover, the touch of sweat at minus twenty-t ...Show more
See You In September by Charity Norman
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It was supposed to be just a short holiday... but when Cassy is lured to an idyllic valley called Gethsemane it's years before her friends and family see her again. Can her family rescue her before it's too late? A dazzling, gripping new novel about a young woman lured into a clutches of a doomsday cult ...Show more
Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Richard Powers
50.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryTHE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY'It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it. . . . It ...Show more
Dumb Show by Mike Johnson
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Holed up in a Canterbury farmhouse is a family under siege from within -- Grandfather in self-imposed exile; Father with a mind overwhelmed by shell-shock; Pito, a spirit that won't sleep; self-righteous Aunt Grin; and a litany of other dysfunctional bullies. But as the past begins to unravel, bones sur ...Show more