The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
Escape to the ocean with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year - as read on BBC Radio 4. 'Mesmerising' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'A unique talent' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Wonderful' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Brilliant' CLARE CHAMBERS Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself w ...Show more
The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love' On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shih's life is inte ...Show more
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Devastatingly humorous and humorously devastating...an unbelievably brilliant and funny book about friendship, family, food, sex, and death. Catherine Newman serves up a masterclass in narrative - you'll stay up late devouring every word.' KATHERINE HEINY, author of Early Morning Riser and Standard Dev ...Show more
Willowman by Inga Simpson
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Inga Simpson brings all her craft and sensitivity to a story that has never been told, and now that she has done it, it feels like this was a story that was needing to be told. With her art, Inga joins the likes of Meg Lanning, Ellyse Perry and Alyssa Healy in the vanguard of cricket's exciting new rev ...Show more
The Dolphin House by Audrey Schulman
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A young woman and her extraordinary connection with a pod of dolphins. From the award-winning author of Theory of Bastards.
The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A devastating novel about broken relationships, the promises we're unable to keep and living with the ghosts of your past. Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of the ...Show more
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident. Shortlisted for the 2022 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.' Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours 'A stunning, immersive ...Show more
A Brief Affair by Alex Miller
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A moving novel about storytelling, about truths, and love, from twice Miles Franklin Award winner Alex Miller. 'More than one ghost haunts this tender novel about love in its many guises, condoned and illicit. In his deceptively simple, lucid prose, Alex Miller examines the emotional contradictions inhe ...Show more
Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Charlie's skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness--that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor's loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. 'You're a good sister, Eleanor." ''Don't say that.' After two years of lo ...Show more
Lucy by the Sea (HB) by Elizabeth Strout
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past ...Show more
A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An uncovered novel from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen. In A Ballet of Lepers Leonard Cohen explores themes that would come to permeate his later works - shame stemming from feelings of unworthiness; sexual desire, in all its sacred and profane dimensions; and longing, whether it be for lo ...Show more
This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Sometimes you need to go deep into the past, to make sense of the present Alice had not expected to spend the first twenty years of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new mille ...Show more