Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
For all her life, Till, now twenty-three, has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend, and her tormented half-wondering about whether she might have been able to stop it. Finally, at the age of twenty-three, Till flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wir ...Show more
The Girl from London by Olivia Spooner
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children from war-torn England to Australia and New Zealand. Her three-month voyage is fraught - their passage is perilous, and the children anxious and homesick. Nine-year-old Fergus is more troubled than most and Ru ...Show more
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary l ...Show more
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from a working-class background to be at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. Her masterful line of questioning in the courtroom has netted Tessa win after win, f ...Show more
The Burnout: The hilarious new romantic comedy from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author by Sophie Kinsella
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The irresistible new romantic comedy from the number one bestselling author. Discover the joy that awaits when you set yourself free...Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Sasha has hit a brick wall.Armed with good intentio ...Show more
The Cuban Daughter (Lost Daughters #2) by Soraya Lane
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: The\Lost Daughters Ser.
Havana, 1950. As the beautiful daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Cuba, Esmeralda knows the importance of marrying well. But when her father takes her on a business trip to London, she falls in love with a young merchant named Christopher. When Christopher visits her father's sugar farm, ...Show more
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A TV script writer thinks she's over romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions- a humorous, subversive and tender-hearted novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rodham, American Wife and Prep. Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy... With a series of he ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews
An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody! 'As addictive and intoxicating as the perfect martini. Don't start reading unless you have cancelled all your plans.' - Sarah Bailey, author of The Dark Lake an ...Show more
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 13
The entrancing story of a reclusive Hollywood starlet as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine - from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about ...Show more
Answering to the Caul by Ted Dawe
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
‘There are some things you can never share with another human being. Answering to the caul is one of those.’ It is said that being born in a caul means that you can never die by drowning. Andrei Reti puts this prophesy to the test, time and time again. But there is a price to be paid for each caul i ...Show more
The Cuban Daughter by Soraya Lane
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Havana, 1950. As the beautiful daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Cuba, Esmeralda knows the importance of marrying well. But when her father takes her on a business trip to London, she falls in love with a young merchant named Christopher. When Christopher visits her father's sugar farm, Esme ...Show more