The Model Wife by Tricia Stringer
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Even a good woman can be pushed too far...From bestselling author Tricia Stringer, this beautifully realised multi-generational family story looks at what happens when real-life betrayals and struggling relationships clash with outdated ideas of what a woman should be. Natalie King's life is full. Some ...Show more
The Snares of Memory by Juan Marse; Nick Caistor (Translator)
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In January 1949 on an otherwise unremarkable day in an unremarkable Barcelona neighbourhood cinema, a prostitute is murdered in cold blood in the projection booth by the assistant projectionist, one Fermín Sicart. More than thirty years later, a screenwriter resolves to determine the truth behind her m ...Show more
Katerina - The New Novel from the Author of the Bestselling a Million Little Pieces by James Frey
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, James Frey's explosive new novel, is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2017. At ...Show more
The Butterfly Girl (#2 Naomi Colttle) by Rene Denfeld
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Naomi Cottle is an investigator who finds missing children. But the one child she has never been able to find is her sister. The two were abducted when they were very young but only Naomi managed to escape. Now, twenty years later, there is at long last a clue that her sister might still be alive. Celi ...Show more
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
INDIE AWARD WINNER 2020The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of PAST THE SHALLOWS and WHEN THE NIGHT COMES. A tender and masterfully told story of memory, family and love. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Suddenly a ma ...Show more
The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A poignant ode to love and the memories that make a well-lived life, from the author of THE SINGLE LADIES OF JACARANDA RETIREMENT VILLAGE As the wife of retired ship's doctor Dr Henry Parker, Evelyn is living out her twilight years aboard the Golden Sunset. Every night she dresses for dinner - gown, tia ...Show more
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An event two decades in the making, Stephen Chbosky's Imaginary Friend redefines the horror genre. Read it with the lights on. Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven-year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle of the night ...Show more
The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality--and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power. The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavour ...Show more
The River Capture by Mary Costello
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Luke O'Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on his family land on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family's heyday and turns to books for solace.One morning a young woman arrives at his door and enters his life with profound consequences. Her pres ...Show more
The Eighth Life (For Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili; Charlotte Collins (Translator); Ruth Martins (Translator)
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified- this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste ...Show more
Akin (TPB) by Emma Donoghue
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Good condition. slight mark on first page. Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his long-awaited first trip back to Nice, but he receives a call from social se ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (#1) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more