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
The Book of Longings (PB) by Sue Monk Kidd
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
THE New York Times BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY-SELLING The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings 'Superlative . . . From a writer at the top of her game . . . A practically perfect historical novel' New York Journal of Books 'A bold, imaginative reworking' Sunday Times ...Show more
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A girl's own adventure . . . This is Rachel Joyce's best book yet . . . Exciting, moving and full of unexpected turns.' The Times'The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.' Patrick Gale____________________It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job an ...Show more
A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel--her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their day ...Show more
Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as ...Show more
Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist. With her in the fight for justice is the one ...Show more
The Singularities by John Banville
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily Telegraph Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from a flashy red sports car onto the estate of his youth. But there is a new family living in the drafty old house: descendants of the late, world-famous scientist Adam Godle ...Show more
This Motherless Land by Nikki May
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a 'spirited exploration of culture and kinship' (Bonnie Garmus). 'Utter perfection from start to finish, This Motherless Land broke my heart then put it back together.' LAURA MARSHALL, author of Friend Request 'A spirited exploration of culture and kinship--of how ...Show more
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A beautiful hardback edition of a Latin American classic - the enthralling saga of three generations of the Trueba family, their love, magic and fate. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious deat ...Show more
A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling. When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tok ...Show more
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'STRIKING, ETHEREAL AND TRANSCENDENT' NEW YORK TIMES'THIS BOOK WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS' BRYN GREENWOODNo heart is safe on the savage side.Arcade and Daffodil are twin sisters born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an imaginative world of their own, nurtured b ...Show more