Funny Story by Emily Henry
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Set over one sizzling summer comes a shimmering, joyful new novel about the happily-ever-after that wasn't and the exes determined to make the best of it from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Happy Place and Book Lovers Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in ...Show more
Mongrel by Hanako Footman
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways 'A brilliant explosion of writing and storytelling . . . This feels like reading an Oscar-winning film' - AISLING BEA 'Heart-shatteringly visc ...Show more
Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A funny and moving family story with an unconventional heroine in a quirky coastal community - Olive Kitteridge or The Shipping News on the edge on the Irish Sea. Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a little village on the sublimely beautiful east coast of Northern Ireland. She fills her days with swimmin ...Show more
Love at Six Thousand Degrees: A Novel by Maki Kashimada
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
"Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world."-Yoko Ogawa, author ofThe Memory Police (on Touring the Land of the Dead) A housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud. She abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon begins an affair ...Show more
The Gentleman From Peru by Andre Aciman
29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A dazzling, sunbaked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name. We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A group of college friends find themselves ...Show more
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch of ...Show more
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life.'The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.' - The TimesIn 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he enco ...Show more
The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
As a hypnotherapist, Ellen O'Farrell is fascinated by what makes people tick. So when she falls in love with Patrick, the fact that he has a stalker doesn't faze her in the slightest. If anything it intrigues her, and the more she hears about Saskia, the more she wants to meet this woman. But what she d ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing tr ...Show more
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Emma is a nervous flyer and she can't help but tell the man next to her - quite a dishy American, but she's too frightened to notice - all her innermost secrets.She survives the flight, but when the American boss of the whole corporation visits the company, he seems strangely familiar.
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. This new collection showcases her many talents -- and the return of her beloved characters Nell & Tig They explore the ...Show more