Psalms For The End Of The World by Cole Haddon
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer. Finding h ...Show more
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
**Soon to be a TV series** Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and ...Show more
Love & Virtue by Diana Reid
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s ...Show more
Salt and Skin by Eliza Henry-Jones
36.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Grief-stricken and on the verge of a breakdown, Luda Managan and her two teenaged children try to make a home for themselves on a collection of harsh and haunted Scottish islands. Luda, a photographer, is mesmerised by the extraordinary magic of the islands and soon finds herself condemned by the loc ...Show more
The It Girl: The deliciously dark new thriller from the global bestseller by Ruth Ware
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Everyone wanted her life Someone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April’s body ten years ago. It was Hannah who didn’t question what she saw that day. Did her testimony put an innocent man in prison? She needs to know the truth. Even if it means questioning her own friends. Even if it means p ...Show more
An Italian Girl in Brooklyn by Santa Montefiore
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From #1 internationally bestselling author Santa Montefiore comes a spellbinding new novel about dark secrets and hidden sorrows--set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York.New York, 1979.It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart weighted w ...Show more
Fellowship Point: A Novel by Alice Elliott Dark
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she know ...Show more
A Recipe for Family by Tori Haschka
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Perfect for fans of Meg Mason and Sally Hepworth; a powerful and heart-rending story about how food connects us and assumptions divide us – and how true family can come from where you least expect it. Things are getting slippery for Stella. With her husband away she’s juggling a full-time job, a tricky ...Show more
More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The heartbreaking family epic from the Booker International Prize-winning author An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage - from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a Bar On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the nine ...Show more
Lessons by Ian McEwan
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Corne ...Show more
The Young Accomplice by Benjamin Wood
40.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In the summer of 1952, Joyce and Charlie Savigear are waiting on a railway platform in the quiet English countryside. The siblings have just been released from borstal to start a new life as apprentices at Leventree, an architecture practice with a difference.The architects who've chosen them are Floren ...Show more
The Bad Angel Brothers by Paul Theroux
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers. There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the ...Show more