The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. 'Ryan's work has set a benchmark to which other writers will aspire' JOHN BOYNE' I think you have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL ...Show more
Poor People With Money - A Novel by Dominic Hoey
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale flat has no furniture, her father's dead, her catatonic mother's in an expensive nursing home and her kickboxing gym is going to Thailand. Monday's shitty bartending job pays fifty cents over minimum wage, and ...Show more
How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN ‘An antiheroine able to best villainous male protagonists such as Patrick Bateman any day’ OBSERVER ‘Deliciously addictive…brilliantly executed’ i PAPER Cosmopolitan and Grazia’s best books of 2021 · Kill my family · Make a claim on their ...Show more
Ginger and Me by Elissa Soave
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize - a part-coming of age and part-mystery novel perfect for bookclubs and fans of Joanna Cannon's The Trouble With Goats and Sheep and Emma Healey's Elizabeth is MissingWendy is nineteen and living alone.All she wants is to drive the 255 bus around U ...Show more
Still Water by Rebecca Pert
35.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
‘BEAUTIFUL AND BRUTAL…A BREATHTAKING DEBUT’ JOANNA CANNON ‘ATMOSPHERIC AND COMPELLING’ KATE SAWYER, author of the Costa-shortlisted The Stranding A beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief and redemption, Still Water is a debut from a bright new voice in literary fiction. When Jane Douglas ...Show more
Mr Carver's Whale by Lyn Hughes
34.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Our story begins when a sea chest of books is delivered to Antonio Mateus João Carvalho Cabral, the youngest son of the Carvalhos family on the whaling island of Pico, in the Azores ... but that's just the start of this darkly charming story of love, death, desire, atonement ... and whales. This is the ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison by Meredith Jaffe
24.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Can a wedding dress save a bunch of hardened crims? The Full Monty meets Orange is the New Black in a poignantly comic story about a men's prison sewing circle.'This is a deft and unlikely story in an uncommon setting about an estranged daughter, her jailed father and a very bad idea about a dress. It a ...Show more
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
49.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
'McCarthy writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read' - Telegraph 1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divel ...Show more
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
39.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and she does not want to talk about ...Show more
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, the only daughter of a genius - or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Mo ...Show more
Ancestry - A Novel by Simon Mawer
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The past is another country and we are all its exiles. Banished forever, we look back in fascination and wonder at this mysterious land. Who were the people who populated it? Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea... N ...Show more
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Like many before her, Maria Lagana ...Show more