A Black Fox Running by Brian Carter
21.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'I have never read a novel about animals and the British countryside - with the single exception of BB's The Wild Lone - which has so moved or entranced me. Never' John Lewis-StempelThis is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons lead ...Show more
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a ...Show more
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
September 2, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-i ...Show more
Second Sight by Aoiffe Clifford
28.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
When Eliza Carmody returns to her hometown after a destructive wildfire, she witnesses a crime that draws her back into the mysteries of a childhood she thought she'd left behind for good. When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had ...Show more
The Ex by Nicola Moriarty
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Girl meets boy. They fall in love. There's just one problem ... She wants him back. She wants you gone.Luke is The One. After everything she's been through, Georgia knows she deserves someone like him, to make her feel loved. Safe.The only problem is his ex-girlfriend. Luke says Cadence is having troubl ...Show more
Daisy Jones and The Six: From the author of the hit TV series by Taylor Jenkins Reid
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
They were the new icons of rock and roll, fated to burn bright and not fade away. But on 12 July 1979, it all came crashing down. There was Daisy, rock and roll force of nature, brilliant songwriter and unapologetic drug addict, the half-feral child who rose to superstardom. There was Camila, the frontm ...Show more
Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.From New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes her most anticipated book since Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, J ...Show more
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taugh ...Show more
Braised Pork by An Yu
34.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband - with whom she had been breakfasting barely an hour before - dead in the bathtub. Next to him a piece of paper unfolds like the wings of a butterfly, and on it is an image that Jia Jia can't forget. Prof ...Show more
Pine by Francine Toon
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'It's both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end.' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men. Lauren and her father Niall live alone in t ...Show more
Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
You never forget the one that got away. But what if 'what could have been' is still to come?Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape.But that was years ago and Ali hasn't thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him 'the one that got away'; she'd been t ...Show more
Sixty Summers by Amanda Hampson
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Life is too short for compromise ... When Maggie, Fran and Rose met in their youth, they had dreams and ambitions. Forty years later, the three friends are turning sixty, each of them restless and disenchanted with their lives. Fran works in a second-hand bookshop. Her lover, one of a long line of disap ...Show more