Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Some of what they say about witches is true. A witch story unlike any other. From the prizewinning author of The Gracekeepers.Some of what they say about witches is true.She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden...Lux has lost everything when Else finds her, alone in the wo ...Show more
Compulsion by Kate Scott
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Robin and Lucy have each fled the mayhem of their lives (chemical, musical, erotic) and fears and found each other. 'Strap in and let an unforgettable story of sex, drugs and electroclash rush past you like the wet neon blur beyond the windows of a speeding Trans Am. Scott manoeuvres around sinuous cur ...Show more
The Trees by Percival Everett
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of ...Show more
Saha by Cho Nam-Joo
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a s ...Show more
The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond between humans and dogs and the life-affirming power of connection. For fans of The Guest Cat, Sweet Bean Paste and Before the Coffee Gets Cold Following a devas ...Show more
The Green Man of Eshwood Hall by Jacob Kerr
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1962, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants quarters and doesn't go to school. Neglected by her parents, she spends her moments of freedom exploring the forest and the village beyond. The more she comes to understand the history o ...Show more
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Now a major film starring Tom Hanks. 'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail ... 'Rescued all those men ...Show more
The Exquisite Art of Getting Even by Alexander McCall Smith
29.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The characters in this delightful book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. But how we get even is not always the best road to redemption. On the island of Mull, it takes an incomer to make the locals realise that they need to take matters into their own hands to maintain the commu ...Show more
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
55.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The 30th anniversary edition of the bestseller that defined an ageTruly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a grou ...Show more
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene by Jonathan Strahan
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.We are living in the Anthropocene-an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorro ...Show more
Thistlefoot: A Novel by GennaRose Nethercott
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In the tradition of modern fairytales like Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore-a debut novel about the ancestral hauntings that stalk us, and the uncanny power of story. The Yaga siblings-Bellatine, a young woodworker, and ...Show more
Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect... 'A novel luminous with love and hope that will change the way you see the world.' Kathryn Heyman Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the loss of h ...Show more