The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Warm, funny, and bursting with heart' Rebecca Serle 'Beautiful, moving, hopeful' Emily Stone Greta James is adrift. Literally. Just after the sudden death of her mother - her most devoted fan - and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes second album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage ...Show more
The Five People You Meet In Heaven 20th Anniversary Edition by Mitch Albom
39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Heaven Ser.
A STUNNING 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE MASTER STORYTELLER'S INSPIRATIONAL CLASSICTo his mind, Eddie has lived an uninspiring life. Now an old man, his job is to fix rides at a seaside amusement park.On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie's time on earth comes to an end. When a cart falls from the fairg ...Show more
The Wakes by Dianne Yarwood
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A heartfelt, funny and uplifting debut about two failing marriages, two strangers falling in love, two friends embarking on a catering business - and the four funerals that connect them all This is a story about Clare, Louisa and Chris. And sometimes Paul, and less often, Beth. It is most certainly not ...Show more
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUADA Time Magazine Must-Read'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling' TIME'A dazzling feat of literary construction' VOGUEFrom one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time comes an electrifying, deeply mo ...Show more
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors by Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
DRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. For centuries past, and all across the world HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. there are words that have defined and decried us. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. Words that raise our hackles VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. fire up our blood; FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. words that tell a story I ...Show more
I Have Some Questions For You: 'A perfect crime' NEW YORKER by Rebecca Makkai
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past: the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampsh ...Show more
Golden Days by Caroline Barron
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now.Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Be ...Show more
P.S. Come to Italy by Nicky Pellegrino
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'The ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY on To Italy, with LoveCan you fall in love with someone you've never met?When Belle started writing to Enrico, she certainly wasn't looking to fall in love! Everything about his life in southern Italy is so different to hers - but somehow, across half the wor ...Show more
Emma Watson by Joan Aiken; Jane Austen
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Emma Watson has been brought up by her aunt in a wealthy and refined household, an educated lifestyle far removed from her widowed father and five siblings. So when her aunt enters into an imprudent second marriage, nineteen-year-old Emma is sent back home and must join her sisters in their pursuit of a ...Show more
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most hotly anticipated, hilarious and addictive debut novels of 2023, from Schitt’s Creek screenwriter and electric new voice in fiction, Monica Heisey. I feel like when you get a divorce everyone’s wondering how you ruined it all, what made you so unbearable to be with. If your husband dies, ...Show more
A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An astonishingly inventive, playful, funny, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting new literary voices. Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days - they're not exactly days - she visits her daughter Eva in Madri ...Show more
The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Instant New York Times bestseller!Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer's most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say."Gripping... This one easily stands on its own." --Publishers Weekl ...Show more