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 lov ...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
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see ...Show more
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japane ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney. 'Just let him go.' Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. T ...Show more
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'Brilliant wit, real heart and electric humour' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 'A compelling hurricane of a book' Ann Patchett 'A welcome reminder of what fiction can do’ Rumaan Alam A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism, generatio ...Show more